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All Saints

All Saints

Husbands Bosworth

Leicestershire

The fabric appears to be Medieval, details are Victorian.

Architectural Features

Over this, just below the parapet is a stone dated 1683 with the initials SB and ET and some decoration.

Nave arcade of 4 narrow bays, rebuilt in C.19 in Decorated style with clustered shafts with heavy and luxuriant foliate capitals and double chamfered arches, banded alternately red and white ashlar, and with large angels as label stops to hoodmould.

Stained glass in chancel south window of 1898: A florid representation of the Good Shepherd.

Stained glass in south vestry of the Good Samaritan, 1865, and a series of stained glass in the South aisle of 1867, depicting miracles in gaudy colours.

Fittings throughout the Church date from the restoration: choir stalls with ornate brass candleholders, lecturns, pulpit, altar rails, reredos panels and encaustic floor tiles.

Font also of this date: octagonal with inscribed panels.

Tombs: On the north aisle wall, various C.19 memorials to members of the Mason family, and to Anna Smith who died in 1706: The oval inscription plate is superimposed on a scroll with a shield above and a skull below.

Hollow pinnacles flank an inscription, containing two swords of John Shenton, 1612-1669, and Austin Kirk Shenton, 1895-1918.

Various C.18 war Memorials and a charity board in the tower and C.18 and C.19 War Memorials to the Hubbard la Sargue family in the south aisle.