Church of St Edmund
Church of St Edmund, Back Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087866
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Edmund, Back Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087866
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Edmund, Back Street
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 Edmund, Back Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Castleton
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 15028 82901
Details
SK 18 SE
7/18
PARISH OF CASTLETON
BACK STREET (west side)
Church of St Edmund
21.04.67
GV
II*
Church. Early C12, C14 and early C19. Rubble limestone and gritstone ashlar with gritstone dressings. Lead roofs hidden behind parapets. West tower, nave, south porch, chancel and north vestry.
C14 west tower of three stages with diagonal buttresses with set-offs. Three-light west window with four centred arch. Lancet bell openings. Battlements and eight pinnacles. Four bay nave divided by buttresses with two set-offs. Windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. Moulded parapet with pinnacles. Rainwater heads dated 1831 when the medieval aisles were demolished. South porch also of 1831 with steep castellated gable with pinnacles. Chamfered, pointed arched opening. Studded door. Two bay chancel with two-light windows with plate tracery. Castellated parapet with pinnacles. Vestry attached to the north with C18 wooden Y-tracery.
INTERIOR: Norman chancel arch renewed in C19. One order of colonnettes with block capitals. Zig-zag decoration to the arch. Double-chamfered tower arch. Box pews inscribed with dates 1661, 1662, 1663, 1676, 1703, 1712, 1716, 1720 and 1722, and with five three-branched brass oil lamps with engraved glass globes. Nave roof with re-used C16 timbers. Plain octagonal font. Stained glass in chancel south east window, 1911 by Kempe. Other unattributed windows. Three memorials on north wall dated 1725, 1804 and 1863. The last by Patteson of Manchester.
Listing NGR: SK1502882901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82479
- 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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