Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061583
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061583
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, HIGH 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 ANDREW, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tur Langton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 71360 94542
Details
TUR LANGTON HIGH STREET (South Side) SP79 SW 7/104 7.12.66 Church of St. Andrew G V II* Church. 1865/6. By Joseph Goddard of Leicester. Red brick with stone dressings and dark blue brick string courses. Welsh slate roof with stone coped gables and finials. Decoration both outside and inside in cut brick and dark blue brick. In the Early English style. N W tower and spire, nave, N aisle, chancel and S chancel vestry. Tower of 3 storeys with angle buttresses, N.W. doorway, paired lancets on 2nd stage with small round window over, and 4 shafted triple lancet bell openings. Moulded and cut brick frieze. Broach spire with 1 tier of lucarnes, finial and weathercock. Large W window with lancets and rose window over. Plate tracery and stained glass of 1877. 4 bay N arcade, the arches with cut brick decoration, on circular piers. N clerestory of small quatrefoil windows. 5 3-light S windows with plate tracery. 5 bay roof with curved braces to collars. N aisle has paired lancet windows. Semi-circular chancel apse with lancets filled with stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Wagon roof to chancel, the braces round the apse supported on shafts and stone corbels. S. chancel vestry with lean-to roof. N chancel organ chamber. Pevsner and V.C.H., Vol.V.
Listing NGR: SP7136094542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191126
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
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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