Allexton Church – St Peter
Only just in Leicestershire, this small pretty village of approx 60 people lies off the busy A47 which separates it from its near neighbour Belton-in-Rutland. It lies some 15 miles east of Leicester and 3.5 miles west of Uppingham, separated from Rutland by Eye Brook which runs just north and forms the boundary with Rutland. The area around Allexton had for many years been wooded and was part of Leighfield Wood during the early...
New Website Launched
Today we have launched our new site and although it looks rather empty, have no fear it will soon be filled with our old data and new churches. The ‘interactive map’ shows all the churches we have completed and you can search for information on them and follow the link. Most of the churches are on the old site www.rutlandchurches.co.uk, but over the next few months they will be gradually moved onto this site. We will also...
Belgrave Church – St Peter’s
Although today Belgrave is a suburb of the sprawling city of Leicester it once was a pleasant wealthy village situated to the north of Leicester. Rich merchants built large houses to escape the squalor of the nearby city and some of them remain and one is open to the public. The village was known as ‘Merdegrave’ during the Domesday Book where it was owned by Hugh de Grentemesnil. The ancient parish also contained the chapelries...
Loughborough Church – All Saints & Holy Trinity
Loughborough is our largest town in the north of the county and it expanded a great deal during the Industrial Revolution, from 1801 to 1831 the population doubled to 10,969. It is the administrative centre for Charnwwod district and has a population today of 59,000. Mentioned in the Domesday Book the village began life as a Saxon village and the town is probably named after a certain ‘Lehedes’ and the second part...
Sutton Cheney Church – St James
This pretty village has a population of around 550 and is 14 miles west of Leicester and very near to the Battle of Bosworth which occurred in 1485. There will be a section on the battle added to the site soon – in the meantime I have added a link to Bosworth Battlefield site further down. Before and after the Norman Conquest the major part of the manor (including a windmill) was owned by the Abbey of Croyland in...
New Design Launched
Well here we are in Mid October and the new site is starting to take shape. We have our basic design in place and can now start moving content across from the old platform into the new site. It will take time, but we hope to add content as we move forward towards the New Year. We do have issues with some of the ‘interactive elements’ and these are having to be re-written for the new platform but this move guarantees the...
Carlton Church – St Andrew
Carlton lies a couple of miles north of Market Bosworth and 16 miles west of Leicester. It is a small village and has a population of around 300 people. There is no mention of the village in the Domesday Book so this is probably a post Norman settlement. The parish registers go back to 1574. The church of St Andrew is a brick and stone building rebuilt in 1764 on a stone plinth after the earlier church burnt down. In 1867 Goddard...
Medieval Wall Paintings In Leics & Rutland
Janice Morris has researched many of the wall paintings in Leicestershire & Rutland. This article first appeared in the Harborough Historian. Introduction My initial recording of church wall paintings focused on Northamptonshire. I realised that a number mentioned in Arthur Mee’s and Nickolas Pevsner‘s books about the county were no longer visible, therefore I decided in 1990 to make a complete record of what remained. Church wall...
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