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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Thorpe Arnold

Leicestershire

C13, altered C14.

Architectural Features

Clerestory added and N aisle probably rebuilt C15.

Coursed squared ironstone and limestone with limestone dressings, Swithland slate roof to chancel and porch, plain-tile roof to tower and lead roofs to nave and aisles.

Capital to S-E respond has carved head flanked by lions heads.

Perpendicular-style roof with C15 corbels supporting wall posts.

Font: Norman, circular, tub-shaped, with knight fighting dragon and two foliated crosses

Stain-glass E window, S-E aisle window and W window of S aisle 1876 by Heaton Butler and Bayne.