Leicester No. 11 / Ledecestre

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20033LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Clement [disappeared by 1526]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Clement
Church Address: [cf. Geo Directions]
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, Ukraine, Europe
Directions to Site: [the church may have been located near Black Friars]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 11thC (?) church disappeared by 1600)
Font Notes:
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."