CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1176759
Date first listed:: 01-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1176759
Date first listed:: 01-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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 PETER, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Melton (District Authority)
Parish:: Freeby
National Grid Reference:: SK 81979 20088

Details

SK 82 SW FREEBY CHURCH LANE

Saxby (east side) 1/26 Church of St.Peter 1.1.68

II*

Parish church. Built 1789 to the designs of George Richardson. Interior altered and reseated by J.Goddard, 1874. Restored 1980. Limestone ashlar with ashlar dressings. West tower with spire, nave and chancel. West tower, 3 stages, has 4 shallow clasping buttresses, 2 moulded string courses and dentillated cornice. First stage has to west, a round headed doorway with C19 shouldered door and overlight. Above it, a crest. North and south sides have each a round headed window, that to north blocked. Second stage has chamfered plinth incised '1789' to west, and on each face a round window, that to north blocked. Octagonal bell stage has 4 diagonal volutes, each topped with a vase. On each face, a round headed louvred bell opening. Octagonal needle spire has moulded base, ball finial and cross, and on 2 tiers of round headed lucarnes, the lower tier louvred. Nave, 3 bays, has plinth and string course, moulded eaves cornice with gargoyles and coped parapet and gable. On each side, 3 round headed windows with leaded glazing. 2 bay chancel has similar features to nave. North side has a central round headed window. East end has a larger round headed window. South side has to left, a blocked doorway and above it, a blocked window. Interior has round porch under tower, with saucer dome. To east, C19 doorway. To its left, stone winder stair. To its right, a recessed panel. Bell stage has blocked opening to east. Nave has sill band and low pitched matchboarded roof. Central window to north has stained glass, 1898. Central window to south has stained glass, late C19, by Hawkes of Birmingham. Other windows have patterned stained glass. Chancel has chamfered round arch, continuous sill band and C19 panelled dado. East end has wooden reredos and gradine with swag ornament, segmental pediment and 2 angels. East window has late C19 stained glass. Low pitched panelled roof has billeted wall plate. Fittings include late C19 pierced oak stalls and desks, oak lectern and square ashlar pulpit with carved panels. C19 font, C15 style, with panelled octagonal bowl. C19 pine benches with shaped ends and rosettes. Memorials include brasses, c.1820 and 1918 and war memorial brass, 1918.

Listing NGR: SK8197920088

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 189798
Legacy System:: LBS

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War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/67528

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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.