Knighton, Leicestershire

Description
Knighton, an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1878 from the civil parish of St Margaret, Leicester, and a township comprising Knighton, South Knighton, and Stoneygate. It is now included in the borough of Leicester, of which it forms a ward, and has a post and money order office under Leicester; telegraph office, Clarendon Park. Area of the township, 1093 acres; population, 6075; of the ecclesiastical parish, 6097 The manor belongs to the Cradock family. Many of the houses are villas, with large gardens, and inhabited by the manufacturers of Leicester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. There is a chapel of ease, erected in 1885, which is a building of red brick with dressings of stone, in the French Gothic style. There are Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels. A Home for Penitent Females, a building of red brick in the Gothic style, was erected in 1881 at a cost of £7000.