Church of St Denys

Church of St Denys, Church Lane, Eaton, NG32 1SL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1075022
Date first listed:: 01-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: Church of St Denys
Statutory Address:: Church of St Denys, Church Lane, Eaton, NG32 1SL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1075022
Date first listed:: 01-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: Church of St Denys
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Denys, Church Lane, Eaton, NG32 1SL

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 Denys, Church Lane, Eaton, NG32 1SL

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Melton (District Authority)
Parish:: Eaton
National Grid Reference:: SK 79820 29079

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 October 2024 to amend the name and to reformat the text to current standards.

SK 7928 38/369

EATON CHURCH LANE (south side) Church of St Denys

(Formerly listed as Church of St Denis)

1.1.68

GV I Parish church. Substantially C13 with C15 alterations. Ironstone with ashlar dressings. West tower, nave, aisles and chancel. Lead roofs.

Three stage tower supported by clasping buttresses. Lancet west window and lancets to north and south of ringing chamber. Two-light belfry windows of shaft and plate tracery: punched quatrefoil. Corbel table below crenellated parapet with angle pinnacles. Ironstone octagonal spire with one tier gabled two-light lucarnes to alternating facets. Two-light late C14 ogeed aisle windows under square hoods. South doorway with three orders of shafts with nailhead and dog-tooth. Long gabled south porch. North aisle doorway with dog-tooth. Clerestory added C15. Three two-light windows each side, those to south under triangular heads, those to north square. One C13 lancet to north chancel, three-light east window and two two-light Y tracery south chancel windows.

Interior: three bay arcade with circular piers on waterholding bases. Polygonal capitals to north, circular to south and with nailhead decoration. Double chamfered arches. Triple chamfered tower arch with polygonal responds and double chamfered chancel arch. Nave roof of canted tie beams dropping on solid arched braces to wall posts and corbels. Moulded ridge piece and one pair moulded butt purlins. C15 chancel screen of four cusped ogee lights right and left of wavy central opening. Moulded cornice above and traceried dado below. C16 chancel roof. Canted tie beams with King post spur to ridge piece. One pair butt purlins.

Listing NGR: SK7982029079

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 190168
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.