Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1073229
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1073229
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, 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 PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Market Overton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 88589 16453
Details
MARKET OVERTON
SK 81 NE CHURCH LANE (West side)
2/97 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul 14.6.54
GV I
Church mainly of C14 but with Anglo-Saxon arch. Ashlar and coursed squared rubble stone with part parapetted, part Collyweston slate roof with stone coped gables. W tower, nave aisles, chancel, NE vestry and S transept and porch. Tower of 3 stages, coursed squared rubble stone to N and S, ashlar to E and W. Plinth. Dec W window with blocked W door below, sundial on S wall said to have been placed by Isaac Newton, 4 Dec bell openings, gargoyles, and possibly restored cornice and battlements. W arch to nave Anglo-Saxon : 'This is the only worthwhile piece of Anglo-Saxon architecture in the County (of Rutland). Jambs of very large,stones the imposts of the arch, unmoulded blocks' (Pevsner), 3 bay similar N and S arcades. Double chamfered arches over octagonal piers and responds. Hood moulds and label stops. Clerestory of 4 windows, N flat-topped Dec, and S pointed arch Dec, but for S E late Perp. Outside, windows have hood moulds and label stops, and clerestory has ball flower frieze. Parapet above and to chancel, and small sanctus bell-cote over chancel arch. 4 bay restored low-pitch tie beam roof, the wall pieces and bracesion wooden corbels. In N aisle Dec NW and NE windows, the NE open to organ chamber. Flat-topped N window with Reticulated tracery and blocked N door. Outside, buttresses with set-offs and head and ball-flower frieze. N organ chamber and NE vestry both probably of 1858. Chancel arch similar to arcades but inner chamfer hollow. Chancel rebuilt 1858. 2 windows with Curvilinear type tracery, 1 with stained glass of c1882. Similar E window of 1868 with stained glass. 3 bay C19 roof with curved braces to curved collar on carved corbels. In S transept SE window with stained glass of c1887 and S window restored Dec.S doorway arch with thin shafts and many mouldings and oak 6 panelled door with inscription dated 1756. S porch arch has keeled responds and the aisle a ball flower frieze. Inside a fine series of C18 wall monuments which continue ouside on S transept walls and monument of 1695 on E wall of chancel. Font a combination of early English and Norman capitals; C19 pulpit and carved oak reredos and choir stalls. White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877, and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SK8858916453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186667
- 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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