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St Nicholas

St Nicholas

Mowsley

Leicestershire

Late C13, restored by J.L. Pearson in 1882.

Architectural Features

South porch largely medieval, although the coped gable was re-built and the outer arch restored in 1882, but the responds of the arch appear to be original.

Similar window in chancel, but the priests door and south east window are medieval, the latter is a C15 insertion, a square headed window with 3 ogivally arched lights.

In the south transept, is a 2-centred arched piscina beneath the window, richly moulded, and on the west wall a length of C17 oak panelling said to have come from the Manor House at Knaptoft.

There is no chancel arch, just a small change in level and a wood screen made by J.L. Pearson from old oak, simply worked in a medieval craft tradition with 6 narrow trefoiled arches and a wider central arch above which is a simple cross.

2 wall memorials in the chancel: on the north wall to the Reverend James Tindall, d1852, a Gothick tablet with inscription in ogee arch flanked and capped by pinnacles with fleurons.

On the south wall there is a painted wood tablet in a late medieval style to the memory of Henry Green, the Rector responsible for Pearson's restoration work.

Font is late C13: octagonal with trefoiled panels, mounted on a Victorian base.

Stained glass in chancel east and south east windows is from the same studio, but only the south east window is dated, 1891.