St. Thomas, Glen Parva, Leicestershire

Description

The church of St. Thomas, South Wigston, is a plain edifice of red brick, with a tower containing 8 bells, the gift of T. Ingram esq. who erected the tower: the tower also contains a clock, placed there by public subscription in memory of the men of this parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. The church, locally in the hamlet of Glen Parva, was erected in 1893, in place of the former mission hall, built in 1886, in part by the Leicester Church Extension Board, who subscribed £1,750 of the cost, a further £1,000 and the pulpit being the gift of T. Ingram esq. of Wigston Magna, who also presented the organ: there are sittings for 600 persons.