Church Langton, Leicestershire

Description
Langton Church, a village and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands 4 1/4 miles N from Market Harborough, and has a station on the main line of the M.R. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office at East Langton, under Market Harborough. The parish comprises the townships of East Langton, West Langton, Thorpe Langton, and Tur Langton. Acreage, 4409; population, 629. The mother church of the parish, in the village and township of East Langton, is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and embattled western tower. It was restored in 1866 at a cost of , £3000. The living is a rectory, consolidated with the curacies of Thorpe Langton and Tur Langton, in the diocese of Peterborough; net yearly value,, £395 with residence. There is a valuable charity amounting to about £1000 a year, from which free schools are maintained, and which is also used for other benevolent and ecclesiastical purposes. East Langton is about 4 miles N from Market Harborough, and it has in addition to the church previously mentioned, a Congregational chapel, erected in 1881. At West Langton there is an ancient mansion of stone called the Hall, standing on a hill in a small park, the property of the Warner family. Thorpe Langton is a chapelry and township 3 1/2 miles N by E of Market Harborough. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style; consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a western pinnacled tower with an octagonal spire; has an ancient font, and was restored in 1868. Tur Langton is a chapelry, township, and village 2 miles E by N from Kibworth station on the main line of the M.R., and 5 1/4 NW from Market Harborough. The churcli, erected in 1866, is a building of brick in the Early English style. There is also a Congregational chapeL Charles I., in his flight from the Battle of Naseby, is said to have watered his horse here at a place still called King Charles' Well.