St Martin’s is an enlarged parish church ‘nominated’ to Cathedral status in 1927.  In 1980 a memorial stone to King Richard III was installed in the chancel between the stalls stating that he was buried in the parish at Greyfriars graveyard in 1485 after the Battle of Bosworth.  However, his remains were rediscovered beneath a car park in the center of Leicester in August 2012 and finally laid to rest on 26th March 2015 in a lead-lined coffin of English oak in a tomb that replaced the original memorial stone in the Cathedral.