The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Leicester (now)
Parish church
The former village of Belgrave is now a suburb of Leicester, and the church lies on the E bank of the River Soar. The building consists of chancel, extended in the 14thc, a nave, S and N aisles added in the 13thc, and a W tower, which lower stages date to the 12thc, while the upper one was added in the 15thc. The S porch built in 1826 and a N porch was erected in 1911; the N vestry date to 1877. The church was restored in 1860 by Ewan Christian, in 1861-67 by William Gillett, and again in 1877 by George Gilbert Scott. The surviving Romanesque sculptures is found on the reset S doorway and in the tower arch.