History of the Church

At the time of the Domesday Survey, there was a priest at Huncote which suggests that there was a church. There was an ancient chapel at Huncote which was dedicated to St. James. It was sometimes described as a chapel of ease. By 1622, this chapel was in ruins. The ruins of the chapel and of a castle were to be seen in a field near the mill.

Because Huncote was part of the parish of Narborough, services were carried out at Narborough. When the Sunday School was built in 1852, clergymen came from Narborough and held services in the Sunday School. This practise had stopped by 1863 but then began again later, after 1871.

In 1898, a new church was built in Huncote and dedicated to St. James although it has never been quite completed.

Sources:Domesday Book, Leicestershire, Phillimore; Old Huncote, Michael Tanner; History and Antiquities of the county of Leicester, Vol lV Pt. ll, John Nichols

A List of Past Vicars

Cecil Lowes ROBINSON M.A., 1892 - 1904 (appointed before the church was built)
Ion CARROL B.A., 1906 - 1912
Richard Ley GREAVES M.A., 1916 - 1941 (still there in 1941)