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St Botolph

St Botolph

Sibson

Leicestershire

Partly late C13-early C14, but mostly at 1726, restored in 1872.

Architectural Features

Fabric of chancel is medieval, and the windows have interesting tracery of c1300.

One C15 window of31ights south, and a small priests door.

Stained glass in chancel SE and NE windows, depicts the Light of the World, the Good Shepherd and Saints Paul and Barnabus in medieval style.

In the chancel, stone recumbent effigy of a man holding his heart in his hands, beneath a canopy and a brass, 1532, to John Moore, a priest, with huge outstretched hands and double curved scrolls of text reaching up to a small Christ figure, also with open arms, seated on a rainbow above.