Leicestershire

This parish church of St Mary and St Hardulph was formerly the church of an Augustinian Priory founded early C12. Formally a fortified hilltop a monastery was established there by the C7. The first Abbot Hedda became the second bishop of Lichfield in 691.

The monastery was destroyed by the Danes and not re-established until the foundation of the Augustinian Priory in early C12, the church was remodeled in the C13 with a long and wide chancel which is today's nave.

 
 
French medieval stained glass presented to William IV and then given to Earl Howe, who had it installed in St. James church Twycross Leicestershire.
 
 
 
 

 
Tomb of Francis Shirley of Staunton Harold (d1571), and his wife Dorothy.
 
 
 
 

 
 
"Presentation in the Temple" panel originally from Saint-Denis near Paris (c1145).