Medieval Fragments, Bottesford
Fragments of 15th century stained glass, all that remains of the church's pre-Reformation glazing, gathered into a south clerestorey window in the chancel.
The most northerly church in Leicestershire is also one of its very best, St Mary's at Bottesford is a grand enough structure in its own right, a fine building of mainly 14th/15th century date with a soaring spire, but a chancel full of monuments to the Roos and Manners families (the successive Earls of Rutland) make it unmissable, like Westminster Abbey in miniature.
Despite Leicestershire's notoriety for locked churches this one is happily normally open daily from 9am-5pm.
Medieval Fragments, Bottesford
Fragments of 15th century stained glass, all that remains of the church's pre-Reformation glazing, gathered into a south clerestorey window in the chancel.
The most northerly church in Leicestershire is also one of its very best, St Mary's at Bottesford is a grand enough structure in its own right, a fine building of mainly 14th/15th century date with a soaring spire, but a chancel full of monuments to the Roos and Manners families (the successive Earls of Rutland) make it unmissable, like Westminster Abbey in miniature.
Despite Leicestershire's notoriety for locked churches this one is happily normally open daily from 9am-5pm.