Church Of St Andrew

The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building located on the south side of High Street in Tur Langton. It was constructed between 1865 and 1866 by architect Joseph Goddard of Leicester. The church is built of red brick with stone dressings and dark blue brick string courses, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone coped gables and finials. Designed in the Early English style, it includes a northwest tower and spire, a nave, a north aisle, a chancel, and a south chancel vestry.

The tower rises three storeys and is supported by angle buttresses. It features a northwest doorway, paired lancets on the second stage with a small round window above, and triple lancet bell openings with four shafts. A moulded and cut brick frieze adorns the tower, which culminates in a broach spire with one tier of lucarnes, a finial, and a weathercock. The large west window consists of lancets with a rose window above, showcasing plate tracery and stained glass dating from 1877.

Inside, the church has a four-bay north arcade with arches decorated in cut brick, resting on circular piers. The north clerestory is fitted with small quatrefoil windows, while the south side features five three-light windows with plate tracery. The roof is a five-bay structure with curved braces supporting the collars. The north aisle has paired lancet windows, and the chancel is designed as a semi-circular apse filled with stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. The chancel also boasts a wagon roof, with braces around the apse supported by shafts and stone corbels. The south chancel vestry has a lean-to roof, and there is a north chancel organ chamber.