Former Church of St Paul
Former Church of St Paul, Kirby Road, Leicester, LE3 6BD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063905
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- Former Church of St Paul, Kirby Road, Leicester, LE3 6BD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063905
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Church of St Paul, Kirby Road, Leicester, LE3 6BD
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:
- Former Church of St Paul, Kirby Road, Leicester, LE3 6BD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Leicester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 57402 04422
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/07/2018
718/0/10179
KIRBY ROAD
Former church of St Paul
(Formerly listed as Church of St Paul)
21-MAR-02
II
Former church. 1870-71. By F.W Ordish and J.C Traylen. Mountsorrel granite rubble with limestone dressings. Slate roofs with stone-coped gables with kneelers. Chancel, south-east tower, north-east vestry, nave and aisles and north and south porches.
Early French Gothic style with buttresses. East end apse has five triple lancets each surmounted by a rose window under separate gables, with tall buttresses between. North east vestry has three-light window and a two-light window with plate tracery to east. To south of the chancel is the two-stage tower with hipped roof. Door with two-light window with plate tracery to south and staircase projection to east. Aisles have three-light windows and the nave clerestory above has two-light windows with plate tracery. Triple lancet with rose window above to west end. Gabled porches to north and south at west end of aisles.
INTERIOR. The high interior has chancel with stained glass to the easternmost window and elaborate reredos below of carved stone, marble and mosaic. Set of choir stalls and panelling to walls and low screen with iron gates. Boarded chancel roof on arched braces supported on wall posts rising from stone corbels. Stone and marble pulpit and wooden altar with painted panels at head of nave. Nave arcades of striped stone and brick on circular and octagonal piers with carved capitals. Nave roof, supported on wall posts rising from carved stone corbels, is of cusped arched braces pierced above which support two tiers of purlins and rafters which cross at the gable apex. Sets of pews in nave and aisles. Aisle windows have C19 and C20 stained glass, some by Burlison and Grylls and Morris and Co. In north aisle is an austere square font on base with colonnettes.
This fine lofty church has a careful use of materials outside and an impressive interior with nearly all of the fittings surviving.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488539
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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