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Church Attractions In Leicestershire

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Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, Staffordshire to the west, and Derbyshire to the north-west. The border with most of Warwickshire is Watling Street . Leicestershire takes its name from the city of Leicester located at its centre and administered separately from the rest of the county. The ceremonial county has a total population of just over 1 million , more than half of which lives in 'Greater Leicester' .
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  • 1. Mount St Bernard Abbey Coalville
    Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Trappist monastery near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick, and now in that of Charley. The abbey was the first permanent monastery to be founded in England since the Reformation and is the only Trappist house in England. The monks brew the only Trappist beer in Britain.
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  • 2. St Mary's Church Hinckley
    Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. The building itself was a Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral. Since 1560, the building is no longer an abbey or a cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England Royal Peculiar—a church responsible directly to the sovereign. According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was fo...
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  • 3. Church of St. Mary de Castro Leicester
    St Mary de Castro is an ancient, Grade I listed church in Leicester, England, located within the former bailey of Leicester Castle. Today it acts as a parish church in the Church of England's diocese of Leicester. St Mary de Castro is Latin for St Mary of the Castle; a name chosen to differentiate from nearby St Mary de Pratis: St. Mary of the Meadows.The building was closed in 2011 to the public after the spire was found to be unsafe but as of April 2015 is open again. The spire has been demolished, and funds are currently insufficient to replace it and repair the tower beneath.It is believed to have been the first church in the UK to be viewable online using Google Streetview, having been photographed in August 2012.
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  • 5. St Peter's Market Bosworth Market Bosworth
    Leicester is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and close to the eastern end of the National Forest.The 2016 mid year estimate of the population of the City of Leicester unitary authority was 348,300, an increase of approximately 18,500 from the 2011 census figure of 329,839, making it the most populous municipality in the East Midlands region. The associated urban area is also the 11th most populous in England and the 13th most populous in the United Kingdom.Leicester is at the intersection of two major railway lines—the north/south Midland Main Line and the east/west Birmingham to London Stansted CrossCountry line; as well as the confluence of the M1/M69 motorways and the A6/A46 trunk...
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  • 6. Staunton Harold Church Ashby De La Zouch
    Staunton Harold is a civil parish in North West Leicestershire about 3 miles north of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish is on the county boundary with Derbyshire and about 9 miles south of Derby. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 141.A brook flows from the south through the parish, heading for the River Trent which it joins about 4 miles to the north. In the parish the brook is dammed to form a pair of small lakes. Nikolaus Pevsner described the view westwards across the lakes to Staunton Harold Hall and Holy Trinity parish church as unsurpassed in the country – certainly as far as Englishness is concerned.Downstream from Staunton Harold, just over 1 mile over the boundary in Derbyshire, the brook is dammed again to form Staunton Harold Reservoir. Most of the reservoir is i...
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  • 8. St Hardulphs Church Breedon On The Hill
    St Helen's Church is the Anglican parish church of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the deanery of North West Leicestershire and the Diocese of Leicester. There was a church in the town in the 11th century, but the core of the present building mainly dates from work started in 1474, when the church was rebuilt by William Hastings at the same time that he converted his neighbouring manor house into a castle. The church was refurbished in about 1670 to create more space, but the large and increasing size of the congregation led to further work in 1829, and a major rebuild in 1878–80, including the widening of the nave by the addition of two outer aisles. The sandstone church has a tower at the west end, and its nave is wider than it is long due to the extra Victorian aisles. St Helen's Church has som...
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  • 9. St James' Church Sutton Cheney
    Sir Thomas More , venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary, ideal island nation. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. More also opposed the king's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and beheaded. Of his execution, he was reported...
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  • 11. St. Michael's Church Stoney Stanton
    Longstanton is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, 6 miles north-west of Cambridge city centre. Longstanton occupies 2,775 acres . Longstanton was created in 1953 from the two parishes of Long Stanton All Saints and Long Stanton St. Michael. Although the village is called Longstanton, an alternative form Long Stanton can still be found in use today particularly when referring to the separate pre-1953 parishes or to the current ecclesiastical parish.
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