Norman Doorway
Following on from yesterdays post, here is another Norman doorway from St Mary de Castro church in Leicester. This is the refurbished North Door, which has the successive chevron style mouldings. The wood work is a Victorian copy of the previous 15th century design.
The statue of the Virgin Mary was placed in the niche above the door as a thanksgiving memorial for the church's survival in WWII. Leicester suffered it's worst bomb damage during the night of November 19th in 1940, in the Leicester Blitz. Several buildings were destroyed and many people were killed.
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