You will find the parish church of St. German’s in Ranby on Church Lane built in the C12, with work in C15 and then rebuilt in 1861 by James Fowler who re-used some earlier fragments.
The church has slate roofs with stone coped gables and finials. A plinth runs round the entire church. The west tower has narrow 2 stage angle buttresses and the west doorway has a pointed head, moulded jambs and hood mould and plank doors. A single lancet above with a single broader lancet on south side. There is a string course above with bell openings on all four sides, each with pointed head, 2 cusped, ogee headed lights, quatrefoil and hood mould. There are moulded eaves above with large, ornate gargoyles of pigs and humans and battlements above with 4 corner pinnacles.
The north side of the nave has a 2-stage buttress to the west and single pointed window with 2 cusped, ogee headed lights, quatrefoil, hood mould and ornate label stops.
There is a tall chimney to east. The projecting vestry to the east has fragments of three and a half C15 shallow pointed heads of mullion window embedded in the wall. The north side of the chancel has a single cusped, pointed light, hood mould and head label stops.
The south side of the chancel has a moulded string course and single pointed window with 2 pointed cusped lights, cusped, curved triangular mouchette, hood mould and head label stops.
There is a 2 stage buttress to west and the Nave has 2 pointed windows, each with 2 cusped ogee headed lights, quatrefoil, hood mould and label stops.
An early C12 tower arch has a round, roll moulded head, voissoired outer order, large chamfered imposts and rectangular jambs.
The C19 chancel arch has a richly moulded head, responds of 3 clustered shafts, the larger central shaft on each side with fillets, stiff leaf capitals, filleted hood mould and head label stops. The C19 north vestry doorway has a pointed head, chamfered surround in one, hood mould with label stops and plank door.
There is a C19 tie beam roof over the nave, and a wagon roof over the chancel. C19 pews with small doors. C19 pulpit, choir stalls, altar rail, chair and octagonal stone font with cusped panels with flower heads and coats of arms. There is a grey and white marble monument with urn to John Otter, vicar who in died 1854 and a grey and white marble monument to Mary Denton who died in 1837.
Source: English Heritage
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