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St Cuthbert, Great Glen, Leicestershire

Location
(52°34′26″N, 1°2′21″W)
Great Glen
SP 652 978
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Leicestershire
now Leicestershire
  • Ron Baxter
  • Ron Baxter
14 March 2022

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Description

Great Glen is a large village in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, 6 miles SE of the centre of Leicester. The church is on the western edge of the village, and consists of a nave with a N aisle and N and S porches, the former with a modern lavatory block attached to its E side. There is a W tower and a chancel with a N vestry. The tower is 14thc but was partly rebuilt in 1769. The N aisle and its arcade are also 14thc, and the chancel was rebuilt in 1875-76 by Carpenter and Ingelow who also rebuilt the S nave wall in granite rubble. The S doorway is 12thc, as is the font.

History

Great Glen was held by Lovet from Hugh de Grandmesnil in 1086, the manor assessed at 17 carucates and 2 bovates of ploughland with a mill and 30 acres of meadow. The overlordship passed from Hugh's son Ivo to tye Earls of Leicester in the reign of Henry I, and from them to their heirs, the Earls of Winchester. This takes us to 1264, and the death of Roger de Quency, the then Earl, when the manor passed to his daughter and her husband, Alan la Zouch, who was already holding Glen as the under-tenant.

The church was granted to Alcester Abbey (Warwickshire) by Ralph the Butler in 1140, and that house retained the patronage until the 15thc.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The S doorway has been reconsructed using old stones, which explains the rather odd arrangemnt of carved stones in the arches.

Bibliography

Historic England Listed Building, English Heritage Legacy ID: 191050

  1. N. Pevsner and E. Williamson, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, New Haven and London 2003, 168-69.

Victoria County History: Leicestershire 5 (1964), 102-12.