Rothley Temple, or more correctly Rothley Preceptory, was a preceptory in the village of Rothley, Leicestershire, England, associated with both the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller.
The Templar Chapel built c.1240; incorporated into a later building
Pope Clement V who, under the instructions of King Philip IV of France, issued the Pastoralis Praeeminentiae suppressing the Knights Templar
Rothley Court Hotel, which incorporates part of the former preceptory. In the foreground stands the monument recognising Rothley Temple's role in the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Rothley is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England. Situated around one-half mile west of the River Soar and five miles north of Leicester, it had a population of 3,612 inhabitants the 2001 census. The population measured at the 2011 census was 3,897.
The 14th-century Anglican parish church of St Mary and St John
Saxon cross in Rothley churchyard
Tributes in Rothley on 17 May 2007