St Mars Church

St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray is an area church in the Church of England situated in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. By 2016, the congregation, portrayed as "one of the best area holy places in Leicestershire" had fallen into a poor condition of repair and was esteemed "unfit for reason" prompting an interest for 2m to re-establish it. St Mary's Church is the biggest and "stateliest" ward church in Leicestershire, with unmistakable remains dating for the most part from the 13th- 15^th century. The stonework in the most reduced segment of the pinnacle, which has Norman windows, dates from 1170, in spite of the fact that there were absolutely at least one Anglo-Saxon houses of worship on this site before the Norman one.

It is based on an arrangement more common for houses of God and the 100-foot tower overwhelms the town, and is an uncommon case of a ward church with aisled transepts an element typically found just in a basilica. It contains ious outstanding landmarks including the tomb of Roger de Mowbray, first Baron Mowbray and others dating from the 14^th to the 18^th century; likewise a remembrance tablet to equine craftsman John Ferneley. The congregation has an extensive choir containing around 40 individuals. It shapes some portion of the Framland church trail alongside 14 different places of worship in the 'Framland zone'. Duplicates of the manual for the congregation trail are accessible from Melton Tourist Information Center.