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St Botolph

St Botolph

Shepshed

Leicestershire

SK 4819 9/103 18.1.50 CHURCH SIDE (north side) Church of St Botolph (formerly listed under Queen Street) I Parish Church, C13 west tower and spire.

Architectural Features

C15 nave, with clerestory and aisles, and chancel, C19 north porch and south vestry, 1935.

Roof dated 1636 and 1652 and renovated 1912.

Medieval benches with heads and poppy heads on the ends.

C14 font.

Pulpit by R Norman Shaw (Andrew Saint, Richard Norman Shaw, p 298).

Chancel has piscina, C18 communion rail and a series of very fine monuments to the Phillipps family of Garendon. (N Pevsner, Leicestershire & Rutland, p 227

Many finely carved Swithland slate headstones in the churchyard.