Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire

Description
Kibworth Beauchamp, a town in Leicestershire, 9 miles SE from Leicester, and 6 N by W of Market Harborough. It has a station on the main line of the M.R., and there is a post, money order, and telegraph office at the adjoining township of Kibworth Harcourt. Acreage, 1312; population of the civil parish, 1003; of the ecclesiastical, with Kibworth Harcourt, 1463. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value,, £700 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Wilfrid, stands on a height, is a large stone edifice in the Decorated style, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with an embattled western tower, and contains an ancient brass, sedilia, piscina, and a beautiful carved screen. There is an endowed Congregational chapel, and a Wesleyan chapel; also a commodious village hall and a public library maintained chiefly by voluntary subscriptions. A free grammar school was founded here by some person or persons unknown, has a valuable endowment, and was reorganised in 1877 under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners as a second-grade school for boys.