Grace Dieu Priory Ruins
The priory of Grace Dieu was built around 1235-1241 for Augustinian canonesses and founded by Rose (Rohese) de Verdon. She endowed the priory with mills, parkland and the Manor of Kirby in Kesteven, Lincolnshire. Rose was buried in the priory chapel, and later records state that an annual sum of 12d was set aside to maintain a light shining on the tomb. The tomb and effigy were later removed, possibly at the Dissolution, to the nearby...
Melton Mowbray Church St Mary
Where do I start with one of the highlights of Leicestershire? This beautiful large church has much to admire from its cruciform layout to its grand central spire and the fine 48 windows of the clerestory that run around the nave and also unusually the trancepts. You can see at once why in 1927 this church was being seriously considered to be Leicestershires’s Cathedral in place of one in Leicester itself. However in the end...
Stockerston Church St Peter
The very small village of Stockerston is situated in the south-east of Leicestershire, very near to the county border with Rutland and near to the Eye Reservoir. It has no centre as such and the church and Hall are seperated from the village by a short road. The church is first mentioned in 1220 when a ‘Sampson’ was the main patron. The church today dates from the 15th and 16th centuries when it was largely rebuilt by John...
Bringhurst Church St Nicholas
The small village of Bringhurst in the far south-east corner of Leicestershire is sited on a hill which was probably the site of an Iron Age hill fort. In the 11th century the manor of Bringhurst was held by the Abbey of Burg (Peterborough Abbey) and before that the Saxons had a settlement here in the 6th century on this high hill that overlooks the Welland flood plain. There is nothing remaining of the probable Saxon church that sat...
Newtown Linford Church All Saints
The small pretty village of Newtown Linford is closely associated with Bradgate Park, perhaps the most visited country park in the county. The first documented reference to the park is in 1241 when the Earl of Winchester is given rights to take deer with nine bows and six hounds. The village is not mentioned in the Domesday book, although this does not mean it did not exist, but is first mentioned in 1280 in documents. The village and...
Lubenham Church All Saints
The village of Lubenham is in the very south of the county less than two miles west of Market Harborough its large neighbour. The village is bisected by the busy main road into Harborough and the church is only a yards away from the county boundary with Northamptonshire. Lubenham is one of the few churches in the county not to be heavily restored by the Victorians, and although the church is a ‘muddle’ of different styles...
Cotesbach Church St Mary
Cotesbach is a few miles south of Lutterworth and fifteen miles south of Leicester. The first people to settle in Cotesbach were probably the Danes that swept through the country in the ninth century, and later, after King Alfred had reached a peace settlement in 879 giving the Danes the “Danelaw”, or land to the North of the Watling Street (now the A5) in which to live, Cotesbach probably became a stable settlement for the first time...
Potters Marston St Mary
The manor of Potters Marston near Croft now consists of nothing more than a Hall, small chapel and a few other properties, and is classed as one of the lost villages of Leicestershire. There are few records of the manor, but evidence of it’s craft are still found when ploughing in the area – pottery. There was a community here in around 1250 probably already making pottery – hence the name. In 1939 the site of the...
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