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All Saints

All Saints

Thurcaston

Leicestershire

Church of C12, C13, C15 and C19, Granite and slate rubble stone with stone dressings and Swithland slate roof.

Architectural Features

W tower of 3 stages, lower part C13, upper C15, with clasping buttresses, four bell openings and battlements.

Nave of C13 with Perp 3 bay N arcade of double chamfered arches supported by octagonal piers.Similar lower 2 bay N chancel arcade.

N aisle of C13 with NW lancet and N door.

NE window C19 Recticulated type tracery and 2 N windows C19 Geometric.Roof probably C15/C16 part lean-to and part low pitch tie beam type at same angle.

Chancel chapel screen partly C14 and possibly from chancel.

Chancel has wooden chancel arch and 2 S windows with restored Y tracery, 1 with stained glass of 1935 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, London.

Restored Perp E window with fragments of C15 stained glass.

In nave S wall 3 Perp windows with stained glass of 1930 in one.

S door with C12 arch.

Interior includes C13 stone coffin lid, C15 font, C17 and C18 slate floor stones, slate headstone of 1641 and Latimer monument of 1843 by Broadbent of Leicester.