The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Mary and St John Baptist (medieval)
Parish church
Rothley is a village in the Charnwood district of the county, 5 miles N of Leicester. It stands in a loop of Rothley Brook, a tributary of the River Soar, and the church is on the E side of the village. It is an impressive building of pink granite dreesed with grey stone and consists of a tall Perpendicular W tower, embattled and clerestoreyed aisled nave and and a chancel renewed by J. Reynolds Rowe in 1877-78. Nothing in the fabric is earlier than the 13thc, and the only feature described here is the 12thc font. In the churchyard stands the Rothley Cross; a tall shaft with no cross-head dated to the 9thc by Kendrick.