Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN, BARKERSTONE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075010
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, BARKERSTONE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075010
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, BARKERSTONE LANE
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 HELEN, BARKERSTONE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Redmile
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 76934 34043
Details
SK 7634-7734 REDMILE BARKESTONE LANE (North side) 46/304 Plungar 1.1.68 Church of St Helen
GV II*
Parish church. C14 tower, the rest C15. West tower, nave, south aisle with chapel, and chancel. Aisle rebuilt and chapel added 1855-56. Ironstone with limestone dressings and lead roofs. 3 stage tower without buttresses. Arched west lancet with generous mouldings to jambs. Storeys divided by string courses. Plain ringing chamber stage and belfry with 2- light cusped and ogeed windows. Crenellated parapet. Central gabled porch leading into aisle is flanked by one 3-light Perpendicular window each side, both under triangular heads. Stepped buttress to east of aisle separates chapel, which has a similar window.. Short chancel lit through one 2-light south window and a 3-light Perpendicular east window. Gabled vestry to north chancel wall. Interior. 3 bay south arcade on cruciform piers with polygonal bases and capitals. Double chamfered arches. Triple chamfered tower arch with the inner order hollow and decorated with fleurons, ballflower and ballflower being consumed in a dragon' s mouth. One ballflower has a face inside. Other grotesques and a lizard, all rather good quality. Nave roof of tie beams on arched braces, dropping on wall posts to angel corbels. Moulded ridge piece and one pair moulded purlins. 4 fine bench ends in chancel of c. 1500: 2 tiers of arcading, geometric tracery and poppyheads.
Listing NGR: SK7693434043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190240
- 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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