Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1073732
- 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 STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1073732
- 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 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 PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Langham
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 84367 11205
Details
SK 8411 - 8511 LANGHAM CHURCH STREET
2/155 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul 14.6.54
GV I
Large medieval parish church, principally of late C13 - mid C14, with some C15 alterations and conservative restorationsby Ewan Christian and Bodley and Garner in 1876-8 and 1880. Mostly ashlar faced. West tower and spire, nave with aisles and clerestory, S. transept (N. transept demolished in 1802) and transept aisle, chancel. Large and imposing late C13 W. tower of 3 stages, with a large 2-light window to the bell-chamber, with banded shafts and chevron decoration. Broach spire with 3 tiers of lucarnes, the lowest ornately traceried. S. side of church largely mid C14 in an early perpendicular style, with embattled parapets throughout, and much fine carved detail. Buttressed S. aisle, each buttress capped by a pinnacle, and a frieze of ball flower and other emblems: human heads, beasts etc. Perpendicular style traceried windows. Frieze and parapet continue to the S. porch of the same date, with triple-chamfered archway and a 2-light window with ball flower hoodmoulds, and cross on the gable above. Ironwork over doorway dated 1734. Inside the porch, the main door is a double chamfered arch with niche above, and across the angle above the door, a stone platform, relic of a former parvise. South side of porch continues as transept aisle and transept where the E. side wall is ironstone with freestone courses. Transept aisle has decorated window with ball flower decoration. The S. window of the transept is perpendicular and very large, and the corner pinnacles here proportionately loftier. The frieze over the transept contains figures, beasts, faces, flowers etc., and there is a large and battered gargoyle on the E. wall. Perpendicular clerestory with 2 windows in E. wall of nave, and carved frieze. Chancel is ironstone with ashlar courses and parapet, apparently partially rebuilt, perhaps in later C14 when E. window was inserted.
Spacious and light interior, which continues the traditions of fine carving. Triple chamfered tower arch with nail head decoration to responds. Nave of 4 bays with early C14 arcade, triple chamfered, on octagonal piers. Perpendicular clerestory and roof - cambered trusses on long supports, with pierced spandrels. S. transept and its aisle also early C14, with a good series of carved corbel heads, and C15 cambered trussed roof, and in the S. wall, a trefoiled recess for an altar reredos. N. transept arch survives. Chancel windows mainly perpendicular, but 2 are lancets. E. window has stained glass by J.N. Comper, who also did the glass in S. transept window (1908). Incised slab in transept: 2 praying figures and their children below, John Dickenson and his wife, 1532. Font, plain octagonal bowl on a low base, square with engaged shafts, C14.
Listing NGR: SK8436711205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 187447
- 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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