Church of St John the Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II* listed church located on North Street in Coalville, Whitwick. It dates from the late 13th century and 14th century, with restoration work carried out in 1848. The building is constructed of Charnwood granite rubble, featuring an ashlar tower, clerestorey, and porch, with a Swithland slate roof covering the nave and chancel, and lead roofs over the aisles.

The church comprises a nave, aisles, chancel, porch, and a four-stage west tower. It has a five-light east window with intersecting tracery. The south side of the chancel displays a string course with ballflower decoration, a two-light window with plate tracery, a doorway, and two pairs of lancets below. The south side of the nave features two two-light windows with Geometrical tracery, a cusped tomb recess beneath a gable, and a gabled porch. The clerestorey has four two-light square-headed windows from the 17th century. The tower is supported by angle buttresses with niches, and the bell-stage has two-light bell-openings with Decorated tracery on each face, flanked by blank panels with matching tracery.

Inside, the church has a four-bay nave arcade supported by octagonal piers. The roofs were updated in the 19th century, although the nave roof includes a 17th-century tie-beam. A 14th-century octagonal font is present, along with a tomb effigy of a knight, likely from the exterior tomb recess. There is also a memorial tablet for Samuel Litherland of Thringstone, who died in 1695, adorned with winged cherubs and a skull.