CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1084364
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1084364
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MARKET PLACE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MARKET PLACE

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County:: Leicestershire
District:: North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
Parish:: Kegworth
National Grid Reference:: SK 48758 26713

Details

KEGWORTH MARKET PLACE SK 4826-4926 11/129 Church of St Andrew 7.12.62 GV II*

Parish church. Lower part of tower is C13, remainder of church all C14 and C15 clerestory. Restored 1859-60 by Joseph Mitchell of Sheffield. Further restoration to tower and spire 1875 and 1886. Ashlar, with lead roofs. Cruciform plan with west tower, aisled nave, and contemporary vestry to north of chancel. Fine large building in Decorated style, with moulded plinth and sill strings, battlemented parapets, off-set buttresses, and large arched windows with restored reticulated tracery. Earlier west tower is of 4 stages with chamfered lancets to 2 lower stages, and C13 2-light openings with colonnette mullions to third stage. New bell-chamber added C14 with 2-light traceried openings, embattled parapet, and fine octagonal spire. Spire has 2 tiers of lucarnes. C19-C20 door with Caernarvon arch inserted into south side of tower. Nave has C15 clerestory with 6 bays of rectangular 3-light windows, all with ogee tracery. Remainder of church is in Decorated style as before, mostly with 3-light windows. Aisles are of 4 bays and have double-chamfered arched doors to north and south. South porch has wide moulded arch and 2-light traceried side windows. sbansepts each have one west window, 2 east windows, and 2 windows to north or south. 3-bay chancel with carved gargoyles and 5-light east window. North vestry is of 2 storeys, with C19 2-light traceried east window,moulded north door, and slit windows to upper storey. INTERIOR is much restored and scraped. Tower arch is C13, double-chamfered, with outer order on shafts. Lancet window above. Nave has 4-bay arcades to aisles and wider single arches to transepts, all double chamfered, the quatrefoil piers with fillets and moulded capitals and bases. Between clerestory windows are small stone corbels. C15 roof of nave is very fine, with moulded beams, richly carved foliated bosses, and C19 carved wooden corbels in the form of figures playing musical instruments. Aisle and transept roofs are C19-C20. South transept has cusped ogee piscinae in east and south walls, and a similar cusped niche in east wall. North transept has cusped piscina only in east wall. Chancel arch is double chamfered and dies into jambs. Chancel has aumbry with shelf, and much restored piscina and sedilia with cusped ogee arches and finials. Chamfered arched doorway to north vestry. C19 roof. FITTINGS: over the chancel arch is a very fine royal coat of arms dated CR 1684, carved in plaster and restored and repainted 1935. In the chancel there is also a small carved wooden shield with the royal arms, of c1500. One C15-C16 wooden chest. Octagonal stone font with traceried panels is much restored. C18 and C19 memorial tablets.

Listing NGR: SK4875826713

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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.