All Saints Church, Beeby

All Saints Church stands in the quiet Leicestershire village of Beeby. It is a redundant Anglican church built mostly in the early 14th century, with a tower added in the 15th century and a rebuilt chancel in 1819. The church is made from orange ironstone and white ashlar, brick and red sandstone, and granite with timber. Its plan includes a nave, north and south aisles, a chancel, and a three-stage west tower topped by a truncated spire. The tower has a clock face, bell openings, a quatrefoil frieze, and gargoyles along its embattled parapet. The church is recognised in the National Heritage List for England at Grade II*. It contains medieval screens, a 13th-century font with floral panels, late 18th-century box pews, and a stone and marble pulpit from about 1860. The single-manual organ was built around 1925 by J. Porritt, and three bells hang in the tower, one cast by Johannes de Stafford about 1400. Outside and inside, large corbels carry carvings of a serpent, a skull, the Crucifixion, and saints. Visitors find a nave with a clerestory, paired windows along its sides, and a chancel reached by three steps. The south porch leads into the church, where the chancel arch frames the Royal arms. The Commandments board hangs in the south aisle, and the medieval chancel screen divides the space. The church’s varied stonework and carvings show centuries of craftsmanship, set within a small village landscape.