St Botolph's Church, Shepshed

St Botolph's Church, Shepshed
St Botolph's Church, Shepshed
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Anglo Catholic
History
Dedication	St. Botolph
Administration
Parish	Shepshed
Diocese	Leicester
Province	Canterbury

Last updated October 15, 2019

St Botolph's Church, Shepshed is the Church of England Parish Church in Shepshed, Leicestershire.

Shepshed, often known until 1888 as Sheepshed, is a town in Leicestershire, England with a population of around 14,000 people, measured at 13,505 at the 2011 census. It sits within the borough of Charnwood local authority, where Shepshed is the second biggest settlement after the town of Loughborough.

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, Staffordshire to the west, and Derbyshire to the north-west. The border with most of Warwickshire is Watling Street.

Background

It is the most westerly church dedicated to St Botolph and was founded in the 11th century.^[1] It is a Grade I listed building.

The church sits on top of the highest point in Shepshed, probably on the site of an ancient pre-Christian site of worship. The oldest surviving part of the church, the west tower and spire, dates from the 13th century. The nave, with clerestory and aisles, and chancel are all 15th-century. It is constructed mainly from Charnwood granite with Swithland slate roofing.

Charnwood Forest is an upland tract in north-western Leicestershire, England, bounded by Leicester, Loughborough and Coalville. The area is undulating, rocky and picturesque, with barren areas. It also has some extensive tracts of woodland; its elevation is generally 600 feet (180 m) and upwards, the area exceeding this height being about 6,100 acres (25 km²). The highest point, Bardon Hill, is 912 feet (278 m). On its western flank lies an abandoned coalfield, with Coalville and other former mining villages, now being regenerated and replanted as part of the National Forest. The M1 motorway, between junctions 22 and 23, cuts through Charnwood Forest.

Granite A common type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock with granular structure

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture. Granites can be predominantly white, pink, or gray in color, depending on their mineralogy. The word "granite" comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a holocrystalline rock. Strictly speaking, granite is an igneous rock with between 20% and 60% quartz by volume, and at least 35% of the total feldspar consisting of alkali feldspar, although commonly the term "granite" is used to refer to a wider range of coarse-grained igneous rocks containing quartz and feldspar.

Swithland is a linear village in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was estimated as 230 in 2004 and measured as 217 in the 2011 census. It is in the old Charnwood Forest, between Cropston, Woodhouse and Woodhouse Eaves. Although small, it has a village hall, a parish church, and a pub, the Griffin Inn. The village is known for the slate that was quarried in the area.

The south transept with vestry by Albert Herbert.^{[ clarification needed ]} The pulpit is by R. Norman Shaw.

Albert Charles Herbert was a British abstract and religious artist, painter and etcher.

Bells

The church has a ring of bells for bell ringing. The present set of bells were all cast in 1948 at the nearby Taylor's Bell Foundry in Loughborough.

Loughborough town within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England

Loughborough is a town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, seat of Charnwood Borough Council, and home to Loughborough University. The town had a population of 57,600 in 2004, making it the second largest settlement in Leicestershire. It is close to the Nottinghamshire border and within short distances of Nottingham, East Midlands Airport and Derby. The town has the world's largest bell foundry – John Taylor Bellfounders – which made bells for the Carillon war memorial, a landmark in the Queens Park in the town, of Great Paul for St Paul's Cathedral, and for York Minster.

Bell	Weight	Nominal	Diameter
Bell	hundredweights-quarters-pounds	Nominal	Diameter
Treble	4-1-23	F	26.50 "
2	4-3-12	E	27.63"
3	5-1-6	D	29.00 "
4	6-0-16	C	31.00 "
5	7-1-4	Bb	33.50 "
6	8-0-0	A	35.00 "
7	10-1-24	G	38.56 "
Tenor	15-0-0	F	43.50 "

Organ

The church has a two manual pipe organ by Henry Willis. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register

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References

↑ "Shepshed Conservation Area: Character Appraisal: Adopted September 2007" (PDF). Charnwood. Charnwood. p. 10. Retrieved 30 December 2015. Although there is no evidence for any buildings dating from the same time as the church (11th century), many buildings may have an older core than their outward appearance would suggest, ...

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[1] "Shepshed Conservation Area: Character Appraisal: Adopted September 2007" (PDF). Charnwood. Charnwood. p. 10. Retrieved 30 December 2015. Although there is no evidence for any buildings dating from the same time as the church (11th century), many buildings may have an older core than their outward appearance would suggest, ...