Loughborough Parish Church
Description
Loughborough Parish Church is one of the major churches in Leicestershire. Its handsome 14th century proportions are crowned by its elaborate and pinnacled west tower and nave clerestory which date from the late15th/early 16th century. All this reflects the wealth and patronage of the local manorial lords and the merchants and wool traders of later medieval times. Many of their heraldic symbols still embellish the external insets of the great west window and above the tower door. But the history goes back further than this; the church almost certainly sits on both Norman and Saxon predecessors though as far as is known, no archaeological evidence has come to light.
