Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061596
- Date first listed:
- 26-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061596
- Date first listed:
- 26-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH ROAD
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 CUTHBERT, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Glen
- National Grid Reference:
- SP6521897769
Details
SP 69 NE
3/28
26.12.66
GREAT GLEN
CHURCH ROAD
(South Side)
Church of St. Cuthbert
GV
II*
Church. C14 tower, rest restored and much rebuilt 1876. Restoration and
rebuilding by Carpenter and Ingelow of London. Ashlar rubble stone and
granite rubble stone. Plain tile roof with stone coped gables, finials,
ornamental ridge tiles and N aisle stone stack. Angle buttresses with
set-offs and hood moulds mostly with head stops. W tower, nave, N aisle,
chancel, N chancel vestry and S porch. C14 ashlar tower of 3 stages with
moulded plinth, angle buttresses with set-offs, 2-light W window, triangular W
window on 2nd stage, with S bull's eye window and N and S clock faces, 4
2-light bell openings with Y or Reticulated tracery, and battlements. Triple
chamfered nave arch, the outer 2 continuing to ground, the inner on polygonal
responds. 4 bay N arcade with double chamfered arches on keeled quatrefoil
piers and keeled responds. 3 S windows with Y or Intersected tracery. C19 5
bay wagon roof. N aisle has windows with Y or Intersected tracery, N door,
piscina and NE window with stained glass of 1926 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.
Rood screen doorway. Many moulded chancel arch on demi-quatrefoil responds.
Chancel has windows with Y or Intersected tracery, S door, C19 piscina and E
window with stained glass of 1910 probably also by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.
C19 wagon roof. S porch has many moulded arch on shafted responds. Probably
C12 round font. V.C.H., Vol.V and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SP6521897769
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191050
- 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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