All Saints, Lubenham, Leicestershire

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Location
(52°28′34″N, 0°57′48″W)
Site Location
Lubenham
National Grid Reference
SP 705 870
Boundaries
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Leicestershire now Leicestershire
Diocese
medieval Lincoln now Leicester
Dedication
medieval All Saints now All Saints
Type of building/monument
Visit Date
21 Oct 1989, 04 Aug 1990

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Feature Sets
Description

An interesting unrestored church consisting of a nave, N and S aisles, chancel, N chancel chapel and W tower.  Most of this work is 13thc, excluding the upper part of the tower, windows in the N aisle and the chapel.  There is a stiff-leaf capital of c. 1200 in the N arcade and two re-set carved corbel stones, one in the S chapel and one in the N chancel chapel. 

History

Lubenham seems to have been a prosperous parish in Norman times, landowners in Domesday Survey include the Archbishop of York.

Features

Interior Features

Arcades

Nave

Interior Decoration

Miscellaneous
Comments/Opinions

Both sculptures are from a 12thc corbel table of which nothing else survives, and are ancient re-insertions.

Bibliography

J. Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, II part 2 (1971), 697, 701, pl.cxviii.

N. Pevsner, Leicestershire and Rutland: The Buildings of England, London (1984), 297-8.