English Heritage sites near Stanford on Soar Parish
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
11 miles from Stanford on Soar Parish
The picturesque moated remains - including the fine gatehouse and a complete corner tower - of this brick-built fortified mansion have recently been extensively conserved by English Heritage.
JEWRY WALL
12 miles from Stanford on Soar Parish
A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
12 miles from Stanford on Soar Parish
Ashby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe. Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century.
WINGFIELD MANOR
22 miles from Stanford on Soar Parish
The vast and immensely impressive ruins of a palatial medieval manor house, with a huge undercrofted Great Hall and a defensible High Tower 22 metres (72 feet) tall.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
26 miles from Stanford on Soar Parish
The remodelled family home of Bess of Hardwick, one of the richest and most remarkable women of Elizabethan England, stands beside the New Hall she raised later in the 1590s.
LYDDINGTON BEDE HOUSE
26 miles from Stanford on Soar Parish
Set beside the church of a picturesque ironstone village, Lyddington Bede House originated as the late medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln.
Churches in Stanford on Soar Parish
St John the Baptist
Main Street
Stanford-on-Soar
07582266927
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The church is the most southerly in the Diocese of Southwell, with the busy town of Loughborough a stones throw to the south.
Services are from the Book of Common Prayer with readings from the King James Bible. There is a small choir which helps maintain the use of the Psalter in our services. We are blessed with choirs at Rempstone and East Leake who often swell the singing at major festivals, after which tea and cake is enjoyed at the back of church. We also hold said services to mark the feast days of saints.
The building encompasses work from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, a substantial restoration was carried out in 1893 by the architect W. S. Weatherley and financed by Richard Ratcliffe a partner in the Bass Brewery at Burton upon Trent. As a result of this restoration there is much carved wood inside the church including a screen, triptych, organ case, choir stalls and roofs.
There is a peal of eight bells in the tower. The Organ is an unaltered two manual Willis from 1895.
No churches found in Stanford on Soar Parish