Richus Langham 1624 Anthony Marshall 1662 - 1679 Thomas White 1679 - 1685 Caradocus Creed 1685 Abel Ligonier 1698 - 1710 Lewis Griffin 1711 - 1735 Bernard Wilson 1735 (presented but never took possession) John Ewer 1735 - 1753 Richard Stevens 1753 - 1771 George Turner 1771 - 1782 Sir John Thoroton 1782 - 1820 Charles Roos Thornton 1821 - 1846 Canon Frederick John Norman 1846 – 1889 Canon Robert Manners Norman 1889 – 1895 William Vincent-Jackson 1895 - 1917 Frank Walford 1918 – 1943 Canon Alfred Thomas Gardner Blackmore 1943 – 1958 Canon William Nelson Metcalfe 1959 – 1982 Kenneth Aubrey Dyke 1982 – 1992 Geoffrey Spencer 1993 – 1998 Charles Bradshaw 1999 – 2004 Stuart J. Foster 2005 – 2009 Organ A pipe organ was built by Forster and Andrews and opened on 11 October 1859 by Henry Farmer. It was modified by Wadsworth in 1892. In 1995 Norman Hall and Sons installed a second-hand organ by T.C. Lewis from St Hugh’s Church, Southwark. It comprises 2 manuals and pedals and has 15 speaking stops. Organists James Moore 1859 - 1908 (blind) Professor Samuel Corbett 1910 - 1912 (blind) Fred W. Carter 1926 - 1971 Paul Willcock Chris Coe Burials Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland and his wife Margaret Neville (d. 13 October 1559) Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland and his wife Isabel Holcroft John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland and his wife Elizabeth Charlton, daughter of Francis Charlton of Apley Castle Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland and his wife Elizabeth Sidney, daughter of Sir Philip Sidney Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland George Manners, 7th Earl of Rutland John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland and his wife Lady Frances Montagu Manners Elizabeth Manners, Duchess of Rutland in the family vault See also List of works by Sharpe and Paley Treasure Houses of Britain – 1985 TV documentary that opens at the church References Church of England church buildings in Leicestershire Grade I listed churches in Leicestershire English Gothic architecture in Leicestershire Sharpe and Paley buildings Burial sites of the Manners family