CHURCH OF ST GILES

CHURCH OF ST GILES, NEWARK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1045600
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1961
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, NEWARK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1045600
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1961
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, NEWARK ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, NEWARK ROAD

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County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Ollerton and Boughton
National Grid Reference:: SK 65389 67356

Details

OLLERTON NEWARK ROAD SK 66 NE (north side) 3/66 Church of St. Giles 11.8.61

G.V. II

Parish church. c.1780. Gothick style. Irregularly coursed ashlar and brick, rendered. Plain tile and gabled and lean-to slate roofs, low pitch. Ashlar dressings, single capped gable stack. West tower, nave and chancel under continuous roof, C19 vestry and adjoining store, south porch. West tower, 3 stages, has chamfered plinth, 2 string courses, crenellated parapet with 4 crocketed pinnacles, and wind vane. First stage has to north, doorway with lancet-panelled door. Second stage has to south and west, clock, and to north, double lancet. Third stage has 4 double lancet louvred openings. Nave, 4 bays, has 4 triple lancets on each side. North side has to east, lean-to store with cross window to west and door to east. Single bay lean-to vestry has single mullioned window to east. Single bay chancel has to east, triple lancet. Gabled south porch has moulded pointed doorway. Interior has wooden benches, arched plaster ceiling and chamfered pointed doorway with diagonal boarded doors. Aisleless nave has elliptical window heads and intermediate ogee headed panels. Moulded cornice and coved plaster ceiling with C19 brass chandelier. South-east window has stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, 1875. Half round tower arch has moulded arris. C13 style panelled screen, 1901. Tower chamber has rounded stair enclosure with curved boarded door. Half round chancel arch has panelled intrados. Chancel has half height fielded panelling and moulded cornice. East window has stained glass by C. G. S. Foljambe, 1871. Fittings include roll moulded panelled benches, mid C19 cast iron desks and lectern, late C19 panelled octagonal pulpit and round polished granite font with grouped shafts. C17 oak plank parish chest with 3 locks. C18 chair with turned legs and cutout carved back. Monuments include re-sited headstone to Col. Thomas Markham, 1643. Hatchment, late C18. Classical marble tablet, 1825. 8 C20 brasses. War memorial brass, 1919.

Listing NGR: SK6538967356

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 241916
Legacy System:: LBS

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War Memorials Register, accessed 27 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27496

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.