Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074289
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074289
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN 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 ANDREW, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Carlton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 39650 04986
Details
CARLTON SK30 SE MAIN STREET (South Side) 4/11 Church of St. Andrew
GV II
Church. Rebuilt 1764 and Gothicized in 1867 by H. Goddard & Son. Brick with limestone dressings, including plinth which may be the relic of a Mediaeval building, Swithland Slate Roofs with cresting. West tower nave and chancel. West tower entirely of 1867 with clasping buttresses, western lancet and quatrefoil above, tripartite arcading to bell chamber, the outer lower arches blind. Saddleback roof of Welsh slate with ridge cresting. Door in its north wall. South arcade has paired trefoiled lights with hoodmoulds. Gabled vestry to south of chancel which has east window of 3 lights with roundels. Narrow lancet in north wall of chancel. Plain interior: tower arch rids stilted outer chamfer and hoodmould, and this detail is reflected in the chancel arch also. Elaborate nave roof of kingpost construction with ornate tracery filling the spandrels and inscriptions on the west and east tie beams. Chancel roof has scissor braced common rafters. Furnishings date from the restoration of 1867: pews, stone pulpit and font. Encaustic floor tiles to chancel, and altar rails with cusped tracery. Stained glass: north window by Theodora Salisbury of 1920, a war memorial depicting Saints Gabriel and Michael, and in the chancel north wall two saints in the lancets, Mediaeval style, 1909. Simple emblems and flower quarries in east window.
Listing NGR: SK3965004986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188008
- 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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