Modern Britain

Market Bosworth Free Church stands on the west side of Barton Road, about forty metres north of the Church Street junction to the parish church. Originally Market Bosworth Baptist Chapel, the building became disused in the mid-1930s. In 1947, as there was no nonconformist church in the town, a group formed itself into a body known as the Free Church. In 1949 it drew up a formal constitution which welcomed a congregation of all nonconformist denominations.

St Peter's Church, Witherley, is at the southern end of Church Road, with the River Anker on its western flank. It dates originally to the fourteenth century, with a fifteenth century ashlar three-stage west tower with spire, and a three-bay, random rubble chancel that was added in 1858. It is of coursed and squared freestone, with a four-bay nave, an ashlar north aisle, plain tile roofs with stone coped verges, and a fourteenth century gabled south porch.

All Saints Church, Sheepy Magna, is on the west side of Main Road, with Church Lane on its north flank and on the southern edge of the main village. An earlier building on this site, with documentary evidence to suggest that it probably predated 1150, was replaced by the present building in 1778. Inside, memorials are dominated by the Fell family which presided over the rectory virtually uninterrupted between 1768-1888. Other memorials relate to the Lowe family.

All photos on this page kindly contributed by Rob Kinnon-Brettle.