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St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist

St Mary The Virgin And St John The Baptist

Rothley

Leicestershire

C13-C15, restored and chancel rebuilt 1878.

Architectural Features

3-light W window with stained glass of 1879.

4½ bay N arcade of C13, with unchamfered arches of one step on circular piers.

Restored 6 bay low-pitch tie beam roof, the tie beams original and with carved bosses.

C14 N aisle the four windows with renewed Reticulated tracery, three filled with C19 stained glass.

Chancel has polygonal boarded roof and most of the windows filled with later C19 stained glass.

C14 S aisle, the windows with renewed Curvilinear tracery, and the SE with stained glass of 1897.

Fine series of monuments.

Tombe-chest with incised lid to Bartholomew Kyngston, died 1486, and wife.

Tomb-chest with incised lid to Humfrey Babington, died 1549, and wife.

Hanging monument with many small figures to Thomas Babington, died 1567, and wife.

Panel from C16 monument with two mermaids holding coat of arms of Kyngston impaling Skeffington.

Wall monument to Anne Babington, died 1648, in alabaster with black and red marble, showing within an oval niche the busts of both Anne and her husband Mathew Babington : attributed to Edward Marshall.

C19 wall monumnent, oak choir stalls and brass lectern.

Round Norman font, with pattern of concentric lozenges, on C19 short shafts.

Said dated 1520 in Kelly's Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire

Derbyshire, 1881, where also tower dated 1425.