Leicester No. 12 / 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. [...] The church of St. Michael was situated near the west gate of the borough, probably near the corner of the present Vauxhall Street and Causeway Lane. It is probable that the advowson of St. Michael's, like that of other churches in Leicester, was given to the college of St. Mary de Castro in 1107, and subsequently, in 1143, to Leicester Abbey. [...] By the end of the 15th century St. Michael's had become very poor. There was no vicar in 1487, [...] and the church was probably disused by about 1500. It is not mentioned in the records of the episcopal visitation of Leicester made in 1510."