Leicester No. 11 / Ledecestre

INFORMATION

FontID: 20033LEI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Clement [disappeared by 1526]
Church Patron Saints: St. Clement
Church Location: [cf. Geo Directions]
Country Name: Ukraine
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: [the church may have been located near Black Friars]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
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. [...] It is probable that the advowson of St. Clement's, like those of other churches in Leicester, was given by Robert de Beaumont to the college of St. Mary de Castro in 1107, and transferred to Leicester Abbey in 1143. [...] Nichols quotes a deed referring to a St. Clement's Lane which ran towards Black Friars from near All Saints' Church, and on which he supposed that St. Clement's lay. [...] St. Clement's had disappeared by 1526."