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St Botolph

St Botolph

Ratcliffe on the Wreake

Leicestershire

C14, spire rebuilt 1812 and church restored 1876.

Architectural Features

W tower of two stages with short diagonal buttresses, W window with C19 stained glass, N door, clock face to N, 3 2-light bell openings, gargoyles, battlements and tall crocketted needle spire with two tiers of lucarnes.

Early C14 chancel with two N windows with Geometric tracery, E window with Reticulated tracery and stained glass of 1878 and three S windows with Geometric or Curvilinear tracery.

The middle of these has fragments of medieval galss including grisaille quarries.

C12/C13 round font on probably C19 octagonal base.