Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, SHEEP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051642
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, SHEEP STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051642
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, SHEEP STREET
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 PETER AND ST PAUL, SHEEP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kettering Town
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 86739 78414
Details
728/1/17 SHEEP STREET
27-FEB-50 (East side)
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
I
Spacious, mainly C15 church with exceptionally fine west steeple. Chancel, nave
with clerestory, aisles, north and south chapels, north porch. C19 south east
vestry. North doorway and east end of chancel circa 1300. Room above porch.
Piscina, sedilia. North aisle. Wall painting of Saint Roch. Fragments of medieval stained glass in south chapel window. Brass with figures, 1630.
V.C.H, III, pp 221-3.
Listing NGR: SP8673978414
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 230106
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1930), 221-3
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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