The church of St Peter at Market Bosworth was built from the early to mid C14.
View of chancel from nave and of the nave from the chancel.
The hexagonal font is C14 and consists of sculpted shields beneath ogee arches.
The five light east window is by Kempe (1900) and shows the Annunciation, Madonna and child, and Epiphany. Another three light window in the south aisle is by Kempe and consists of St George, St Peter, and the Virgin Mary.
Other stained glass in the church are Chist surrounded by the four evangelists, the good Samaritan, and a mid C20 Madonna and Child.
The stained glass window depicting the Supper at Emmaus is dated 1925 and dedicated to the rector Percy Harris Bowers.
There are two monuments of note an early C19 casket dedicated to Wolston Dixie, his wife and nine children. The old monument is of the Reverend John Dixie (d1719) which is a reclining woman and roccoco cartouche.
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Early C14 decorated church with perpendicular tower. The church yard contains the memorial to Ada Augusta Lovelace, the mathematician daughter of Lord Byron, who is reputed to have written the first computer program, alongside Charles Babbage.
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