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St Mary

St Mary

Carlton Carlieu

Leicestershire

C12 tower, restored

Architectural Features

partly rebuilt 1685 (dated), rest 1767, altered and restored 1880-1.

Unbuttressed tower of 3 stagesm C12 lower 2 of coursed rubble stone, stage, and 4 2-light bell openings with rounded arches, impost blocks, keystones and ver simple curving tracery.

C19 E. window with intersected tracery and stained glass.

N. Windon of vestry has fragments of medieval stained glass.

Below is a monument of Sir John Bale, died 1621 and wife.

The aedicule behind has a central cartouche carved with coat of arms as cresting, and below, on the back platem the couple's children caved in high relief.

Georgian Royal Arms painted on canvas.