St Mary de Castro Church

Do visit if you get the chance

We were walking from Newarke Houses Museum to our next destination, when we passed the St Mary de Castro Church. The building looks amazing from the outside and we popped in for a visit. This is a hi...

You give a little, you take a little

Beautiful little church inside with at least 3 altars! Visually a feast however on the day I visited I found the olfactory sense rather assailed by cleaning fluid. I did find this off-putting and woul...

lovely stained glass windows and church ambience.

attended service Sunday 16 Oct while on city visit and very welcoming and lovely church with good toilets and coffee bar. Richard 3rd church in the castle grounds, so very important.

WOW

This hidden gem was a real eye opener. As the parish church that Richard lll worshiped at I felt he should be interred here. A real voyage through architectural periods and some amazing stained glass.

Worth a look!!!

This little gem of a church, rumoured as both where Geoffrey Chaucer married and here Richard III lay after the his death… where you can see some of the finest examples of early Romanesque arches and ...