St Mary's Church

St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Brentingby, Leicestershire, England. Much of the body of the church has been demolished and converted into a private house, leaving the tower standing. The tower is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
The church was built in the 14th century, and remodelled in 1660. The remodelling consisted of shortening the east end and building a new east wall, replacing the nave windows, rebuilding the roof to give it a steeper pitch, and blocking the north door. The church was declared redundant in the 1950s. Thereafter its condition deteriorated. In 1972–73 a trial excavation was undertaken. In 1977 the body of the church was partly demolished and converted into a house, leaving the tower standing. The land is the ecclesiastical parish of Melton Mowbray, whose parochial church council administers the town church and four others for formerly very rural, less than 2-mile away, lesser active, ex-independent parish churches.

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