CHURCH OF ST GILES

CHURCH OF ST GILES, ST GILES' TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1052403
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, ST GILES' TERRACE

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Date:: 2003-03-17
Reference:: IOE01/09803/15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1052403
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, ST GILES' TERRACE

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.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, ST GILES' TERRACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Northampton
National Grid Reference:: SP 75912 60576

Details

725/2/2 ST GILES' TERRACE 19-JAN-52 (East side) CHURCH OF ST GILES

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C12 crossing tower, upper stages rebuilt 1616, top renewed 1914. Reset and restored C12 west doorway. Chancel probably C12, later widened, with remains of C13 lancet windows. C14 south chapel; north chapel C14 with windows of 1512. C14 north and south aisles, C15 nave with C17 clerestory. Extra north aisle and west end rebuilding with porches, by E F Law 1853-5. Chancel restored 1876. Cl5 Paynell-Gobion alabaster table tomb; good C17 and C18 wall monuments. Early C17 pulpit. Stained glass to East window, 1878, by Clayton and Bell.

Nos 1 to 8 (consec) form a group with St Giles' church and St Giles' Church School.

Listing NGR: SP7591260576

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 232206
Legacy System:: LBS

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