Thorpe Arnold, St Mary's Church, The Nave c.1955
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This view from the nave looking east into the chancel is not exciting, nor is it enhanced by the solid fuel heating pipes to left and right. The chancel arch was rebuilt by Johnson, a Melton Mowbray architect, who achieved little of note. His work appears to have been virtually confined to the immediate area, which may be just as well! The font (right, through the south arcade arch) is 12th-century, and decorated with rather naive yet animated carvings of dragons, and a sword-wielding St George. Also of importance are the corbels in the nave, which may also be of early date.
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