Church of St Peter and St Paul
Church of St Peter and St Paul, London Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1073973
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, London Road
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1073973
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, London 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 Peter and St Paul, London Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Uppingham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 86672 99606
Details
SP 8699-8799
4/77
UPPINGHAM
LONDON ROAD (east side)
Church of St Peter and St Paul
10.11.55
GV
II*
Parish church. C14, enlarged and heavily restored 1861 by Henry Parsons of London. Squared stone and ashlar with Welsh slate roof to chancel and low-pitched lead roofs to nave and aisles, scarcely visible behind battlemented parapet. Tower and spire, nave and aisles, north porch of stone and south porch of wooden trellis-work, chancel and chancel chapels.
Tower of three stages with angle buttresses, moulded string courses and two-light bell-openings. West doorway with continuous mouldings and fleuron decoration in square surround. Spire with three tiers of traceried and gabled lucarnes. Nave of four bays (lengthened by one bay in 1861), arcade of double-chamfered arches (retaining some original painting of tendrils) carried on clusters of four shafts to north with polygonal abaci and to south with quatrefoil abaci. Window tracery, Decorated to north and Perpendicular to south, wholly renewed. C19 roof. Two bay chancel entirely of 1861, Decorated in style, divided from chapels by arcade on black marble columns with naturalistic capitals.
C16 pulpit. Font of 1853 designed by G.E Street for All Saints, Cottesbrooke, Northants. Four small Norman demi-figures representing Christ blessing, a saint blessing and two angels, discovered during work in the C19 and now placed either side of the south door and the east window of the north chapel.
Listing NGR: SP8667299606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186815
- 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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