Church Of St Benedict

TF 26 SE WOOD ENDERBY CHURCH LANE (north side)

3/89 Church of 14.9.66 St. Benedict

• II

Parish church, now closed and used as store. 1860 with some re- used work by Mr. Hackford. Squared and coursed limestone and greenstone rubble. Slate roofs. Western tower, and spike, nave, north aisle, chancel, vestry. 2 stage tower with set back buttresses, having broach spire in Early English style with 2 tiers of lucarnes. To the west a 3 light geometric window and in the upper stage are single lancets to all 4 sides. Greenstone north aisle has 3 triple cusped headed lights, the westernmost being a re-used C14 piece. Vestry has single light. In the north wall of the chancel is a cusped 2 light window and a matching triple reticulated light in the east wall. There are a 2 light window in the north wall of the chancel and 3 two light windows in the nade with plate tracery. The south door in the tower is pointed and has side shafts with rib moulded head. Interior has 3 bay north arcade with double chamfered round arches and octagonal piers. Church contains an architectural fragment of a pillar piscina fluted capital.

Listing NGR: TF2735664133