English Heritage sites near Monks Kirby Parish
KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE
14 miles from Monks Kirby Parish
The picturesque moated remains - including the fine gatehouse and a complete corner tower - of this brick-built fortified mansion have recently been extensively conserved by English Heritage.
KENILWORTH CASTLE AND ELIZABETHAN GARDEN
15 miles from Monks Kirby Parish
Once home to Robert Dudley, the great love of Queen Elizabeth I. Today you can walk in the beautifully recreated Elizabethan garden and marvel at the mighty Norman keep.
JEWRY WALL
15 miles from Monks Kirby Parish
A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.
RUSHTON TRIANGULAR LODGE
22 miles from Monks Kirby Parish
This delightful triangular building was designed by Sir Thomas Tresham (father of one of the Gunpowder Plotters) and constructed between 1593 and 1597.
ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE
23 miles from Monks Kirby Parish
Ashby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe. Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century.
ELEANOR CROSS, GEDDINGTON
25 miles from Monks Kirby Parish
In 1290 Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I and mother of his 14 children, died at Harby in Nottinghamshire.
Churches in Monks Kirby Parish
St. Edith's Church, Monks Kirby
Miller's Lane
Monks Kirby
Coventry
01788 832337
http://www.revelgroup.co.uk
St Edith’s Church is Grade I listed. It dates from 1077 when Geoffrey de la Guerche rebuilt the church and gave it as a priory to the Benedictine Abbey of St Nicolas in Anjou in France. Built into the North wall at the West end is the badly mutilated head and shoulders of a large stone effigy which may be Saxon. The church was substantially rebuilt in around 1380 and in 1415, Henry V transferred the priory to the Carthusians of the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire. The earliest records of the Church bells dates from 1552 and the oldest bell currently surviving dates from 1390. The porch and priest’s room above are 14th century. The nave and tower were re-built in the 14th and 15th centuries with an octagonal spire added: this blew down on Christmas night 1722. In the reformation, King Henry VIII confiscated the assets of the priory, granting the advowson to Trinity College Cambridge in December 1546. The interior of the church was restored in Victorian times: the Baptistry windows are by Hardman and date from Victorian times, as do the other stained glass windows.
Pubs in Monks Kirby Parish
Bell Inn
Bell Inn, Monks Kirby
Denbigh Arms
Main Street, Monks Kirby, CV23 0QX
(01788) 832303
denbigharmsmonkskirby.co.uk/