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Latitude: 52.7416 / 52°44'29"N
Longitude: -1.3571 / 1°21'25"W
OS Eastings: 443501
OS Northings: 316193
OS Grid: SK435161
Mapcode National: GBR 7JN.5PF
Mapcode Global: WHDHV.4C11
Plus Code: 9C4WPJRV+J5
Entry Name: Church of St John the Baptist
Listing Date: 8 November 1949
Last Amended: 18 November 1949
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1178164
English Heritage Legacy ID: 187883
ID on this website: 101178164
Location: St John the Baptist's Church, Whitwick, North West Leicestershire, LE67
County: Leicestershire
District: North West Leicestershire
Civil Parish: Whitwick
Built-Up Area: Coalville
Traditional County: Leicestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire
Church of England Parish: Whitwick St John Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Leicester
Tagged with: Church building
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SK 41 NW
1/18
COALVILLE
Whitwick
NORTH STREET (east side)
Church of St John the Baptist
8.11.49
II*
Church, late C13 and C14 restored 1848, rainwater heads dated 1898, of Charnwood granite rubble with ashlar tower, clerestorey and porch, Swithland slate roof to nave and chancel, lead roofs to aisles.
Nave, aisles, chancel, porch, four-stage west tower, five-light east window with intersecting tracery. Soth side of chancel has string course with ballflower and a two-light window with plate tracery and a doorway and two pairs of lancets beneath. South side of nave has two two-light windows with Geometrical tracery, a cusped tomb recess beneath a gable and a gabled porch. Four two-light square-headed C17 clerestorey windows. The tower has angle buttresses with niches and the bell-stage has on each face two-light bell-openings with Decorated tracery, flanked by blank panels with identical tracery.
Interior: four bay nave arcade of octagonal piers. C19 roofs, but the nave roof incorporates a C17 tie-beam. C14 octagonal font. Tomb effigy of knight, presumably from the exterior tomb recess. Tablet in memory of Samuel Litherland of Thringstone, d.1695, with winged cherubs and skull.
Listing NGR: SK4350116193
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