Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1073218
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1073218
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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 MARY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greetham
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 92458 14651
Details
GREETHAM
SK 91 SW CHURCH LANE (East side)
7/73
14.6.54 Church of St. Mary
GV I
Church of C13-C15 with Norman remains and S porch of 1673. Restored 1897 by J.A. Cossins of Birmingham. Coursed squared stone and ashlar, and ashlar tower, with Collyweston slate, lead and parapetted roofs. W tower, nave, aisles, chancel, N chancel vestry and S porch. Tower of C13/C14 and of 3 stages with plinth and clasping buttresses, the SW enclosing a stair with slits. N and S lancets to 2nd stage and 4 Dec bell openings. Frieze of small heads and very fine, tall spire with small broaches and 3 tiers of lucarnes. W window with restored Perp tracery and quardruple- chamfered arch to nave, 2 dying into triple shafted and chamfered responds. A buttress either side. C14 4 bay N arcade: double hollow chamfered arches with stopped ends over slender octagonal piers. S aisle of c1300: 3 bays of chamfered and hollow chamfered arches over octagonal piers. Clerestory of 3 quatrefoils to N and 3 2-light restored Perp windows to S. 4 bay low-pitch tie beam roof of 1897 with wall pieces and curved braces on stone corbels. Parapet outside. In N aisle NW window with Reticulated tracery, N window similar with C20 stained glass by Donald Brooke of Long Compton, and NE window a 3-light Perp within earlier arch. Cusped frame probably for small painting to right. Outside buttresses with set-offs and blocked N door with hollowed chamfered arch. C13 chancel with 3 lancets to S, 1 in wall set slightly on diagonal and 2 with stained glass of 1896. C19 N vestry. E window with restored Reticulated tracery. Restored 3 bay tie beam roof. In S aisle SW lancet with fragments of Norman tympanum built into wall around. C19 S window in earlier arch and S door with S porch dated 1673 possibly re-using arch. Sundial over. Cusped 1-light with stained glass by Donald Brooke, 3-light window behind organ. This section of S aisle altered in 1897. Outside, nave has frieze of,small heads and 2 C18 wall monuments are set into chancel E wall. Inside, c1200 font restored 1840, and C17 panelling forming dado in chancel. Reused. The carved panels depict the Garden of Eden, the Ark, Daniel in the Lion's Den, the Golden Calf and heads of Saints. Pulpit probably C17 on later stone base with wall monument of 1725 above. Painted hatchment with the Royal Arms of early C19 in N aisle. C18 oak altar-rail. White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877, and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SK9245814651
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186643
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
Whites Directory in Leicestershire and Rutland, (1877)
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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