Church of St Winifride is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1981. Church.
Church of St Winifride
- WRENN ID
- vacant-minaret-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Winifride, Belton Street, Shepshed
- OS grid reference
- SK 478 197
- Coordinates
- 52.7736, -1.29274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Winifride is a disused Roman Catholic church built in 1842 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin for Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, who contributed some of the labor and materials from the Garendon Estate. The church is constructed of granite rubble and features a Swithland slate roof, designed under Pugin's direction. Its exterior is very simple, consisting of a nave and two aisles under a single roof, with small lancet windows and a tripartite lancet window in the east gable end. There is a small gabled south (ritual) porch with a side entrance and an integral buttress. A later addition includes a north (ritual) vestry and a brick bell cote over the west (ritual) gable.
Inside, the church has a simple but damaged interior, featuring arcades with double chamfered brick arches supported by octagonal sandstone piers. There are remnants of inscriptions and murals created by Anselm Baher, a heraldic artist and Cistercian monk at Mount St Bernards Abbey in Leicestershire. The inscriptions include phrases such as "Whosoever shall pray from this place hear then, O Lord, from heaven and shew mercy" on the south nave wall, and "I have loved the beauty of thy house, O Lord, and the place where thy glory dwelled" on the north nave wall. The chancel walls feature additional inscriptions, and the end has angels on either side of the window with a dove descending above, along with the phrase "Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus W. Dominus Deus Sabaoth."
Local climate
Church of St Winifride sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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