Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096490
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096490
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES
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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 GILES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Calke
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 36924 22344
Details
PARISH OF CALKE CALKE PARK SK 32 SE 4/20 19-1-67 Church of St Giles II GV Private chapel. Rebuilt in 1826-8. Sandstone ashlar, roof hidden behind parapets. Chamfered plinth and moulded band at the base of the parapet. West tower, undivided nave and chancel. Tower and nave have diagonal buttresses and tall battlemented parapets, with three cross finials on the east gable. The undivided west tower has to north and south a deeply set broad low lancet with gothick glazing bars. Larger 2-light window above also deeply set and with tracery as in the nave. The west elevation has a pointed doorway with hollow moulding and panelled double doors with gothic tracery. 2-light louvred opening above with Y-tracery. Nave and chancel of three bays with to north and south three 2-light windows with cast iron reticulated tracery and geometric glazing bars, made by a Derby firm. Set in deep double chamfered surrounds. 3-light east window with reticulated tracery. All the windows have moulded hoodmoulds. The east window is flanked by four-centred arched sunk panels with inscribed slabs set in. Interior: West gallery with gothic panelled front. Four-centred arch above to organ loft with hoodmould on headstops. The organ set in has a gothic case with castellated top. Four-centred arched plaster ceiling divided by slender moulded beams into squares with floriat bosses. Coved cornice. Simple open-backed gothic pews and squire's box pew with gothic panelled sides, linked to a two-decker reading desk. Octagonal wooden pulpit with two tiers of thinly gothic panels. Jacobean Style dado to east wall. Spindly cast metal gothic communion rails around three sides. Stained glass in the east window c1844, pictoral and with bright colours, very characteristic of the period. Monument: On the north side in a segmental arched recess behind iron railings by Robert Bakewell (though probably altered). To Sir John Harpur +1741, by Sir Henry Cheere. Sarcophagus flanked by busts with cherubs below and the usual pyramid above. Excellent quality. On the south side a large carved tablet to Sir John Harpur Crewe, Ninth Baraonet +1886. Font with tapering circular bowl on a base of clustered shafts. Lozenge pattern stone flagged floor with circular brass grills, one inscribed Harrison Derby 1828. Three lozenge hatchments. The interior is a well preserved example of a late Georgian interior and is more characteristic of the time than the exterior which looks forward to the more serious C19 gothic revival.
Listing NGR: SK3692422344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82825
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,
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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