Little Dalby, Church Of St James c.1955
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The church sits in a well-treed landscape, close to the basically late 16th-century Hall of the Hartopp family, who financed the building of the church in 1851. This rather ponderous Victorian Gothic building, designed by Raphael Brandon (1817-77), is faced in ironstone, with a heavy spire and tower. The fixtures and fittings are all of 1852, including some stained glass by Augustus Welby Pugin. Brandon was a versatile architect of some merit, equally at home designing St Mary's Church, Humberside (1857), or the tower and spire of Leicester Cathedral. In 1730 Mrs Orton ensured the village's undying fame, for although she sold it at Stilton in Huntingdonshire, it was here that she created Stilton cheese.
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