Withcote Chapel

Withcote Chapel
Withcote Chapel from the northwest
Withcote Chapel Location in Leicestershire
Coordinates: 52°38′38″N 0°49′31″W / 52.6440°N 0.8254°W / 52.6440; -0.8254
OS grid reference	SK 795 057
Location	Withcote, Leicestershire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	Churches Conservation Trust
Architecture
Functional status	Redundant
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	29 December 1966
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic
Groundbreaking	Early 16th century
Completed	1744
Specifications
Materials	Ironstone with limestone dressings, and lead roofs

Withcote Chapel is a redundant Anglican church in the parish of Withcote, Leicestershire, England (grid reference SK795057). It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.Clifton-Taylor includes the church in his list of 'best' English parish churches.

The chapel was built in the early 16th century. It was originally the private chapel for Withcote Hall, but later became the parish church. It underwent external restoration and internal refurbishment in 1744, at which time the embattled parapet and the corner pinnacles were added.

Withcote Chapel is constructed in ironstone with limestone dressings, and has lead roofs. Its plan is a simple rectangle of four bays, with no differentiation between the nave and the chancel. There are buttresses along the sides and at the corners. An embattled parapet runs along the sides and over the gabled ends. On each corner is a crocketted pinnacle. The windows are all square-headed and contain three round-headed lights. There are doorways on the north and south sides, and signs of a blocked west doorway.