About St Peter's Church, Church Langton, Leicestershire
St Peter's church is set in the village of Church Langton, in south Leicestershire, near to the town of Market Harborough.
Worship is Church of England (Anglican). St Peter's is one of the churches forming the Benefice of the Langtons and Shangton in the Diocese of Leicester.
St Peter's serves three villages, Church Langton, West Langton and East Langton and has friends and visitors from all over.
We love to meet new people and visitors. Everyone is welcome! Contact us on info@churchlangton.org.uk and follow our story on www.churchlangton.org.uk
We were delighted to launch our Visitors Guide and host two events at St Peter’s on 10th July.
We had tours of the church and a talk with demonstration of how the roofing work was undertaken given by our conservation architect Bryan Martin and contractor Shaun Ward of Prestige Metal Roofing. The 60 visitors we had throughout the day, were very pleased with the Visitor’s Guide and tour and were especially impressed with Bryan and Shaun and how skilled Shaun is at hand working the lead.
Visitors for the Heritage Talks in July 2019Bryan Martin, Church architect and Shaun Ward of Prestige Metal Roofing Ltd
Festival of Archaeology – Leicestershire & Rutland
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Visit St Peter’s Church in the heart of the Leicestershire countryside
Stonton Road
Church Langton
Leicestershire
LE16 7SZ
For all enquiries about the work of the Church of England in Leicestershire St Martins House, 7 Peacock Lane Leicester https://www.leicester.anglican.org/
We have a new guide book! Something that St Peter’s has needed for a very long time! The guides were funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of our project, ‘Saving and Celebrating our Heritage’ and give fantastic detail on all aspects of St Peter’s Church, tracing the course of its 800 year history, looking at its architecture and churchyard.
St Peter’s Guide book – front cover
Use it as you walk around to discover important features, events and people involved with this lovely building over all these years. The influence of Rev. William Hanbury and his legacy which lives on to this day – and of course, the first performance of Handel’s oratorio, ‘Messiah’ in a parish church in England, as part of a Festival of Music held regularly at that time. Laurence Saunders our priest and martyr, who died at Coventry along with Polydor Virgil, priest to St Peter’s, Chancellor to Henry VII and author of a History of England
St Peter’s Guide book – front cover
Pages about Rev Hanbury
Pages featuring diagrams and carvings
Pages on churchyard curiosities
Here are a few pages inside the Guide…
The Project Team is particularly grateful to the ‘Interpreting the Church’ Activity Group – Rosalind Willats (former Conservation officer for Harborough District Council), Anne Abbott (East Langton), Will Poulton (West Langton) and Maxine Johnson (Church Langton) – for producing the Visitor’s Guide to St. Peter’s. We are especially grateful to Rosalind Willatts for writing the text and Anne and Will for proof reading.
St Peter's Church, Church Langton 