Withcote

Withcote is a small parish currently comprising a number of scattered dwellings in Harborough, a local government district of Leicestershire. The population is included in the civil parish of Braunston-in-Rutland.

Withcote
Withcote
Location within Leicestershire
Civil parish
  • Withcote
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townOakham
Postcode districtLE15
PoliceLeicestershire
FireLeicestershire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

Buildings
Withcote Hall
Withcote chapel

Withcote Hall is a Grade II* listed building[1] that is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register as being unoccupied and in a very bad state[2] It is an early C18 country house, incorporating an earlier building. In the sixteenth century it was described as "one of the fairest houses in Leicestershire".

The Tudor Withcote Chapel adjoins the Hall and is protected by the Churches Conservation Trust[3][4] and contains some stained glass attributed to Gaylon Hone; a glazier to Henry VIII.

Sauvey Castle,[5] an early medieval ringwork and bailey castle and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, is also in this parish.[6]

Close by is Launde Abbey which contains the Tudor monument to Gregory Cromwell, son of Thomas, who dissolved the monastery and built himself a mansion there.

Notable residents

References
  1. Good Stuff. "Withcote Hall - Withcote - Leicestershire - England | British Listed Buildings". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  2. Heritage at Risk 2018 - East Midlands (Report). Historic England. p. 37. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  3. Withcote Chapel, VisitChuches.org, accessed March 2009
  4. "Withcote Chapel, Withcote, Leicestershire". visitchurches.org.uk. The Churches Conservation Trust. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  5. http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/1782.html The Gatehouse gazetteer of medieval fortifications in England and Wales
  6. Historic England. "Sauvey Castle (321118)". PastScape. Retrieved 26 March 2009.
  7. Biography of Henry Smith, regicide British Civil Wars website

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