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Wigston (or Wigston Magna), Leicestershire     

Wigston on Wikipedia.
 

All Saints on Moat Street dates from the early fourteenth century. SP 604 986. © George Weston. Interior view, © Richard Roberts (2016). Grade I listed.

Bethel Evangelical Free Church on Burleigh Avenue and Barnaby Avenue. SP 601 999. © Richard Roberts (2015).

Central Avenue Christian Church on Central Avenue was formerly Wigston Pentecostal Church (1980). SP 602 988. © Dennis Harper (2011). Link.

Eyres Monsell Baptist Free Church on Dorset Avenue. SP 583 994. © Richard Roberts (2015).

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Long Street. SP 605 987. © Dennis Harper (2011).

Life Church (Evangelical; Assemblies of God) has been in this former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (built 1885) on Frederick Street since 1988. SP 607 991. © Richard Roberts (2015).

Little Hill Church (Independent Evangelical, 1972) on Launcester Road. SP 602 979. © Richard Roberts (2015).

Meadows Community Church (Evangelical) on Bull Head Street. The church has been in this former factory (built 1916) since 1983. SP 608 988. © Richard Roberts (2015).

Methodist Church on Moat Street and Cross Street was built as Primitive Methodist in 1885. SP 608 985. © George Weston.

St. Wistan on Church Nook and Bull Head Street. The tower is C14, though the rest of the church is of a re-build of 1853. SP 609 991. © George Weston. Grade II listed.

U.R.C. (built 1731 as Congregational, re-built 1841) on Long Street. SP 605 988. © George Weston. Another view. © Dennis Harper (2011). Grade II listed.

Wigston Cemetery on Welford Road has a Mortuary Chapel (circa 1880). SP 609 978. © Richard Roberts (2015).

 

 

 

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