KIRBY-BELLARS, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Melton-Mowbray, containing 203 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant. Sir F. Burdett, Bart, was patron in 1813. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. A college for a warden and twelve priests was founded here, in the reign of Edward II., by Roger Beller, which, in 1359, was made conventual, for a prior and canons regular of the order of St. Augustine, and so continued to the dissolution, when its revenue was estimated at £178. 7. 10.