Leicester No. 10 / Ledecestre

There are ten entries for Leicester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK5804/leicester/] [accessed 28 August 2015], with a total of four churches mentioned in them. The Victoria County History (Leicester, vol. 4, 1958) notes: "Of Leicester's medieval parishes, those of St. Peter, St. Clement and St. Michael, with their churches, had ceased to exist before 1600, and have never been revived. [...] St. Peter's Church stood at the corner of West Bond Street and St. Peter's Lane, (fn. 1) and may have been in existence before 1066, although it is not mentioned by name until about 1200. [...] In 1563 the building was leased to Leicester Corporation, [...] and was adapted as a school. [...] The church had apparently begun to decay a considerable time before this, and was no longer used for ecclesiastical purposes. [...] Demolition of the building had begun as early as 1571 [...] By 1634 the churchyard was a cabbage patch." [NB: we have no information on the font from the original church here].