Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, WELBY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075115
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, WELBY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1075115
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, WELBY 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 BARTHOLOMEW, WELBY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Asfordby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 72520 20975
Details
ASFORDBY WELBY LANE
SK 72 SW Church of St Bartholomew 5/7 (formerly listed as the 3.8.79 Welby Church)
II*
Church. C14 and C15, repaired C17. Restored 1860-2 by R W Johnson. Coursed squared ironstone and limestone, with limestone dressings, Welsh slate roofs to body of church, Swithland slate roof to tower. Chancel and nave in one, S porch and W tower. 3-light E window has Perpendicular tracery and hood mould. 2-light chamfered stone mullion window to NE with chamfered stone surround, a 2- light window to middle of N wall with flattened arched head and hood mould. Similar window to SW, a 2-light window to SE with ogee-arched heads to lights, quatrefoil to head and hood mould, small 1-light window to left with cusped pointed arched head and 3-light window to right of porch with segmental-arched head. Perpendicular tracery and hood mould. Chamfered S door with flattened arched head in porch which has double- chamfered doorway. 2-stage tower has lancet window to bottom stage W side and small 2-light bell-chamber openings, with round-arched heads to lights, to E and W gables of saddleback roof. Stone-coped gables with kneelers to truer, porch and chancel. Diagonal off-set buttresses to E end. Off-set buttress to SW angle and buttresses between bays to N. Interior: Small chamfered ogee-arched piscina to N side of altar. Another chamfered arched opening, possibly an ambry, to S of altar. Plain octagonal font, probably C17. Polygonal oak pulpit with Jacobean round arch-headed panels; similar panels to attached reading desk. Buildings of England Leicestershire 1984 p.419.
Listing NGR: SK7252020975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 419
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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