Glenfield St Peter's Church

This is the Anglican Church which stands on the site of the first Christian place of worship in Glenfield. Details of this are very vague, however the Domesday Book of 1086 showed that a priest resided in the village of 'Clanefield' (now Glenfield), but the records list the Rectors only from 1220 AD. Originally, a Rector was the priest who held the right to a tithe (tenth) part of the parish crops, while a Vicar was appointed and paid by the Bishop.

Ruined
Church

The ruins next to St Peter's, which does not allow public access, are those of the church built about the time of the first named Rector. The construction of this old church was typically Norman. The bell tower would have been a short wooden structure.

The present church, completed in 1876, is in the diocese of Leicester, formed in 1927 from part of the diocese of Peterborough. It was the Bishop of Peterborough who consecrated the church but not until May 1877, after an illness. At the consecration he presented St Peter's with a splendid oak lectern as a thanksgiving for his recovery. The cost of the new church was £3700 which was raised by voluntary donations.

Up till the 1920's the Kirby Muxloe and Braunstone churches were chapelries to the Glenfield church but then in 1930 Kirby Muxloe became independent and then in 1937 Braunstone followed suit.

War
Memorial

In 1920 a war memorial was erected in the churchyard in memory of the 35 men of the parish who were killed in the First World War. In 1923 a new vestry was added to the church, while the Church Centre was completed in the mid 70's and is the newest part of the church complex.