Chapel Of St Mary And St Edmund

The Chapel of St Mary and St Edmund is a church built between 1861 and 1862 on the foundations of a 17th-century chapel associated with Old Catesby House. It was designed by Gillet of Leicester for James Attenborough, with a porch and vestry added in 1894. The chapel is constructed from ironstone ashlar and features a tiled roof with a rectangular plan.

The east side has a three-light mullioned and transomed window with a hood mould, while the north and south sides each have two-light mullioned windows. The building includes angle and side buttresses, as well as string courses beneath the windows. A one-bay vestry is located at the south-east corner. The west porch is timber-framed, resting on low stone walls, and has a small single-light window above it. At the top of the gable, there is a stone bellcote with a single open pointed arch that houses one bell. The roof features two timber dormers on the north and south sides, along with stone coped gables that have kneelers.

Inside, there is a reset piscina and sedilia from around 1300, originally from Catesby Priory, which now frame the door to the vestry. The west window contains fragments of medieval stained glass, while the east and south-east windows feature 19th-century stained glass. The interior also includes 17th-century woodwork from the former chapel, such as a late 17th-century communion rail with barley sugar balusters, an early 17th-century pulpit with a tester, and Jacobean panels incorporated into the pews. Some timber corbels supporting the roof may be original and in Jacobean style. Additionally, there are painted Royal Arms of Charles II at the west end and hatchments belonging to the Parkhurst family.