CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1074823
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1074823
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Hungarton
National Grid Reference:: SK 69099 07277

Details

HUNGARTON SK 60 NE CHURCH LANE (East Side) 2/38 29.12.66 Church of St. John the Baptist

GV II*

Church. C14/C15, restored C19. Coursed rubble stone with ashlar tower and leaded, part parapetted, roofs. W tower and spire, nave, chancel, S aisle and S porch. Buttresses, including diagonal and angle, all with set-offs. Stone coped gables with finials. Windows mostly have hood moulds. C14 tower of 3 stages with plinth, angle buttresses, W window with C19 stained glass, small 1-lights to SW stair, clock face to W and 4 2-light bell openings. Above is a frieze with fleurons, heads and central gargoyles, then battlements and recessed crocketted spire with small quatrefoil lucarnes. Inside is a triple chamfered arch to nave. Nave has 3 large Perp. N windows. Transoms and four-centred heads. Cusped lights. 2 have stained glass, of 1937, and 1867. C 14 4 bay S arcade with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Perp. clerestory with 4 2-light windows on S side. C19 4 bay low-pitch tie beam roof. Double chamfered chancel arch. C14 chancel has windows with restored Curvilinear tracery. Stained glass of 1856-7. S door. C19 3 bay roof similar to nave. Squint from S aisle. S aisle has Perp. E window and S and W windows with restored Curvilinear tracery. 1 S window with stained glass of 1822, rest with mid or later C19 stained glass. S door with double chamfered arch. C15 S porch with many moulded doorway. Holy water niche to right and small niche (with later statue) over. Inside are C15 parclose screen to Ashby Chapel in S aisle, square Norman font decorated with concentric lozenges, 6 hatchments, and wall monuments. These include those to G. Ashbie, 1653; Dorothy Ashby, 1681; Shuckburgh Ashby 1792, by Thomas Banks; and Francis Cave de Baggrave, 1568 and wife. White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877 and Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK6909907277

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Legacy System number:: 190700
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.