Quorn, St Bartholomew's Church c.1965
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The church, mainly of the 14th century, stands within a grassy churchyard, close to the A6 Leicester-Loughborough Road. It is faced in hard, local Mountsorrel granite, with alterations and the addition of a north aisle by William Parsons in 1842 (see St Mary's, Bitteswell). The south aisle or Farnham Chapel contains monuments of interest, particularly one to John Farnham of Quorn Hall attributed to Epiphanius Evesham (1570-c1633), whose superb talent should have ensured his fame into the 21st century. Another example of his work is a monument to Lord Norris (1601) in Westminster Abbey and a lovely monument to Sir Thomas Hawkins in 1618 at Boughton-under-
An extract from Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories.
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