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Village church with rare Crusader tombs, Norman font and armorial hatchments.

The church has Anglo Saxon origins but is mainly 14th and 15th century.

The tiny rural village of Hawton might seem a surprising place to find an astonishing gallery of medieval carvings in stone, but its handsome and unspoilt church is just that.

Built in about 1150, St Michael's church is a simple single aisled building displaying a Norman chancel arch and a later 14th century tower.

In a conservation area in the tiny village of Frisby on the Wreake (255 houses), near the market town of Melton Mowbray, the church is as delightful as it sounds.

Spectacular memorials and Norman monsters.

This was the first Cistercian foundation in England since the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century.