Church of St Peter

Church of St Peter, Croxton Road, Saltby, Melton, LE14 4QW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1074988
Date first listed:: 01-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:: Church of St Peter, Croxton Road, Saltby, Melton, LE14 4QW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1074988
Date first listed:: 01-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Peter, Croxton Road, Saltby, Melton, LE14 4QW

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St Peter, Croxton Road, Saltby, Melton, LE14 4QW

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Melton (District Authority)
Parish:: Sproxton
National Grid Reference:: SK 85133 26553

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 March 2023 to reformat the text to current standard

SK 8427-8527 36/59

SPROXTON Saltby CROXTON ROAD (East side) Church of St Peter 1.1.68 II* Parish church. C13 west tower, early C14 nave and chancel, reworked in C15 and chancel further remodelled during 1885 restoration. Ironstone with limestone dressings. Parapets hide roofs, but probably lead. Unbuttressed three-stage tower with lancet west window and lancets to north and south sides of ringing chamber. Limestone late C14 belfry stage with louvred two-light cusped windows. Plain parapet with four corner pinnacles. Perpendicular gabled south porch with double chamfered entrance arch. To left one two-light panel tracery window. To right one four-light tall panel tracery window. Blocked north nave door and one three-light Perpendicular window to east. Three two-light late C19 Flowing chancel south windows and three-light reticulated east window. Blocked chancel north door to east of a brick organ chamber.

Interior: triple chamfered tower arch with two orders of shafts carrying moulded capitals. Above is blocked east window tower. Five bay nave roof of canted tie beams on solid arched braces dropping on wall posts to stone head corbels. Moulded ridge piece and one pair moulded butt purlins. Plain C13 drum font on hexagonal stem. Double chamfered chancel arch on polygonal responds and with polygonal moulded capitals. Chancel with double chamfered C19 arch leading into organ chamber recess to north. Roof of canted tie beams on arched braces with traceried spandrels. Wall posts to corbels. Moulded ridge piece and one pair moulded butt purlins. Crenellated wall plate. This all 1885. Bench sedilia and cusped piscina similarly of 1885.

Listing NGR: SK8513326553

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Legacy System number:: 190288
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.