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All Saints

All Saints

Wigston

Leicestershire

Largely early C14 with C15 features and conservatively restored by C. Kirk, 1863-4.

Architectural Features

C15 clerestory with embattled parapet and paired lights.

Capitals are finely adorned with naturalistic foliage or slightly grotesque human figures

Nave roof dated on tie beam 1637, has curved tie beams with exuberant decoration

C15 screen: 6 tall traceried arches delicately wrought, with canopy above, painted.

Tomb recess in north aisle a trefoiled arch beneath a pointed hood mould which contains a mutilated angel's head.

To either side of the east window are memorial painted panels of 1905 in a style reminiscent of Burne-Jones.

They depict angels and saints in rich colour with gilded inlay.

Stained glass: in the south aisle windows, a medieval lion is incorporated in a later pattern to the west, the 4 evanglists of 1889 and an 1875 scene from the life of Christ.

The glass in chancel east window also depicts scenes from the life of Christ, but in small Lozenges.