St Michael & All Angels Church (Hafod's Church) by CoasterMadMatt
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Rearsby, Leicestershire.
CUT MARK: NBM BLDG N ANG NW FACE SE SIDE RD (ODN 179.369m, AGL 0.5m).
Hearse House and stables. 1896, probably incorporating earlier coach house and stable built for the Horricks family. Coursed red sandstone with large flush quoins, red sandstone slate roof. Single storey, 4 bays. Large central plank doors; smaller flanking doorways, with similar large plank doors to right. Listed partly for G.V. with the nearby church.
Church. 1828-9 by G E Hamilton, chancel by R R Duke, 1877, Partly rebuilt 1950-2 after war damage. Coursed squared limestone with gritstone dressings and rock-faced quoins. Slate roofs. Ridgeback copings to gable walls. Three stage embattled western tower, aisle-less nave, small north vestry and narrow single bay chancel. Wide, pointed south door to tower with deeply recessed continuous moulding . Above four centred arched window with cavetto architrave and moulded dripmould over. Modern clock faced just above. Third stage has similar, but wider, opening to window below, with louvres. Similar bell openings to all but east side of tower. Large west window with cusped panel tracery and four centred arched top. Embattled parapets to tower. South nave wall has three pointed windowswith chamfered Y-tracery. Small pointed single light window to chancel. Twin lancet east window. Above chancel,on nave gable,plaque inscribed: 'Built AD 1823. Restored AD 1877'. North wall has two four centred arched windows with dripmoulds. Interior - completely rebuilt in 1950s. Crude stone font with vertical bands in relief. Probably C12.
The village church of St Michael’s and All Angels was built in 1828 on the site of an ancient chapel from the 14th Century. It was severely damaged in 1941, the only church in Derbyshire to have been struck by a German bomb in the Second World War. It was restored in 1952, along with its Saxon font.
