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All Saints

All Saints

Sheepy Magna

Leicestershire

C15 Tower and Chancel, nave of 1789, but with windows and north aisle mid Victorian.

Architectural Features

The west tower is of 3 stages with angle buttresses capped by gargoyles and an enbattled parapet.

Giant arch to west filled in with paired lancets and wide 4 light Perpendicular style windows above, all Victorian, while at the foot is a low tomb recess containing a worn flatly carved effigy, probably of C14.

Font may however be medieval

Stained glass

Both windows have a backcloth of lavish foliage and fruit, oaks and roses etc. with stylised landscapes behind the narrative scenes, and angels in the quatrefoils.

he used a similar idiom, of principal figures above a narrative, here Daniel and Stephen with the raising of Lazarus, and Isiah and John over the Baptism.