Church of St Botolph
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1034891
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Botolph
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1034891
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Botolph
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, MILL LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burton Hastings
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 40984 89906
Details
BURTON HASTINGS MILL LANE
SP48NW (North side)
4/8 Church of St. Botolph
06/10/60
- II*
Church. C14 chancel and parts of tower. Early C16 nave. Tower rebuilt C16.
Restored c.1867. C19/C20 porch. Coursed squared sandstone, with chancel east
wall and tower of ashlar. Plain-tile roofs; chancel and north side of nave have
moulded cornice and parapet, and cross finial; tower and south side of nave have
moulded embattled parapets and cornices. Chancel, nave, west tower and south
porch. Mostly Perpendicular style. 2-bay chancel, 3-bay nave. Splayed and
moulded plinths throughout. Chancel and nave have diagonal east buttresses of 2
offsets. Chancel has C19 three-light east window; old hood mould has remains of
stops. North side has straight-headed 2-light window with trefoiled lights and
sunk spandrels. Similar south-west single light. Straight-headed 2-light
south-east window has reticulated tracery. South porch has ashlar base and upper
part of timber, with Tudor-arch entrance and traceried openings. Simple moulded
doorway inside has C19 double-leaf doors. Slate sundial dated 1867 above porch.
3-light south-east and north-east windows have mullions, lancets and tracery.
South buttress. North side has traces of blocked door. North-west buttress.
Tower of 2 stages, with splay course between. High first stage has diagonal west
buttresses of 4 offsets. Restored 3-light west window has deep splayed jambs and
hood mould. Second stage has 2-light openings with simple tracery. Pinnacles.
Interior: chancel has small south-east piscina. East wall has small aumbry in
north corner. C19 boarded barrel roof has moulded segmental arched braces,
moulded ridge, purlins and ribs, carved bosses, half-octagonal wall posts and
stone shield corbels. Chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders, the outer segmental
pointed, the inner with half-octagonal responds and moulded capitals. Nave has
splayed north-east angle with renewed moulded Tudor arch doorway and plank door
to former rood-loft stair, and similar doorway above and to right. Simple
broad-chamfered Tudor arch to tower. C19 Perpendicular roof. Fittings: font of
c.1300, but partly renewed, is octagonal with blind trefoiled arcading, rosettes
and fleurs-de-lys, on round base. C19 lid. Chancel arch has hooks for Lentern
veil. Remains of painted Royal arms below tower. Charities board dated 1819
above blocked north door. Old iron bound chest. Pulpit dated 1920.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.VI, pp.59-6l; Buildings of England: Warwickshire,
p.222; National Monuments Record).
Listing NGR: SP4098489906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308874
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1951), 59 61
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 222
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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