1789 - St Peter's church - Saxby, Leicestershire
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N 52° 46.313 W 000° 47.206
30U E 649302 N 5849191
The church of St Peter in Saxby was built in 1789 to the designs of George Richardson and is a pretty small scale Georgian church building. It has now been converted to residential use.
Waymark Code: WMYY52
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/09/2018
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"The jewel in Saxby's crown has most certainly been, since 1789, the very impressive Church of St Peter designed by the architect George Richardson for Robert Sherrard the 4th Earl of Harborough. Saxby's place of worship was built in the 'Classical' style that Pesvener described as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of the Hawksmoor churches of London with Leicestershire usage'. Sadly, when we visited the village in the autumn of 2007 a 'Sold' sign was on display at the Church gates and the building was locked and boarded up. The 21st Century's decline in Church congregations combined with its insatiable thirst for housing development has undoubtedly brought about this change in the village's priorities and only the future will tell whether the 'common good' has been served.
There is no war memorial in Saxby and we found no indication that the village today remembers that some nine decades ago all their sons came home from the Great War of 1914-1918 making this one of only three 'Thankful Villages' in Leicestershire. "
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