The Parish Church of
St Mary de Castro, Leicester

St Mary’s was built around 1107 on the site of an earlier Saxon Church. The church was built as the chapel to the Castle and was established by Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester who founded a college of a dean and twelve secular cannons “to sing mass, and to prayer for the souls of the said founder within the Parish Church of Our Lady”

During the 14th Century the south aisle was added to serve as a parish church.

The church is a Grade I Listed building.

The church in the 21st Century continues to fulfil its role as a Church of England Parish Church.