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Teigh Teigh is in the west of Rutland about five miles north of Oakham The village name is pronounced 'Tee'. The name originally denoted a small enclosure. Teigh was in Alstoe Hundred. Teigh is situated close to an ancient Salt Way. Another road ran east-west from Thistleton to Market Overton, Teigh, Whissendine then on to the Fosse Way at Syston. The cropmark of a prehistoric burial mound has been recorded in the parish. Three medieval fishponds and other earthworks, probably of a manor house complex, survive to the west of the village. There's a biography of the poet John Banton (who lived in Teigh from about 1780 until his death in 1848) in Rutland Record No.13. Teigh is one of thirty-one 'Thankful Villages' in Britain as all thirteen who served in the First World War came back – eleven men and two women. Holy Trinity church Holy Trinity church was rebuilt in the eighteenth century and retains its interior furnishings, making it unique in Rutland. However there are close parallels with Stapleford church just four miles away in Leicestershire, as both were rebuilt by the same patron and architect. Only the tower survives from the medieval building. The lower part is thirteenth century and the upper part fourteenth century. The rest was rebuilt in 1782. The furnishings inside have survived from this date, making it one of the few to have survived the ravages of Victorian Gothic revivalism (although tracery was inserted into the windows between 1892–5). The west end is dominated by a curious pulpit (no less than thirteen feet above ground), flanked by a pair of reading desks. Behind is a painted landscape as if seen through a window. It is perhaps Rutland's only surviving example of 'Strawberry Hill Gothic'. Pevsner wrote affectionately of it, remarking 'The three boxes give one an irresistible hope that at any moment preacher and readers might pop out like the little figures in a weather-house.' The pews face each other, an arrangement known as 'collegiate style'. A stone font of 'nondescript character' was carved in 1845 by the rector. There is also a portable ewer-shaped font of mahogany, lined with lead and ornamented with brass, which rests on a brass arm fitted into a socket attached to the communion rail.   The overbearing pulpit flanked by a pair of reading desks at the west end of Teigh church. Behind is a painted landscape as if seen through a window. Photograph taken in 2008. In Teigh churchyard are the mortal remains of one of the first recorded English travellers to Russia and Central Asia. Anthony Jenkinson's grave is no longer marked, but the records of his travels and his surviving letters comprise the first English descriptions of the lands and peoples of Muscovy and Tartary. With recent historical interest in travel, life writing, and perceptions of 'other,' the story of Jenkinson adds a Leicestershire and Rutland dimension to the processes of globalisation and empire that made the modern world. source: Leicestershire's Marco Polo? Anthony Jenkinson (1529–1611) by Elizabeth Tingle. More about Anthony Jenkinson in Rutland Record No.11. Victoria County History page for Teigh. Back to top of this page     Back to home page   This website does not gather or store any visitor information. Copyright Bob Trubshaw 2026 No unauthorised copying or reproduction except if all following conditions apply a: Copy is complete (including this copyright statement). b: No changes are made. c: No charge is made. www.hoap.co.uk/rutland

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