Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, FOSTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177157
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, FOSTON LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03063/35
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177157
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, FOSTON 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, FOSTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Blaby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilby
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60336 94997
Details
SP69 SW
2/37 and 4/37
KILBY
FOSTON LANE (East Side)
Church of St. Bartholomew
II*
Church. Fabric dates back in part to C10 or C11 though most is early C14 and
it was extensively restored and altered in 1874. Granite rubble with
limestone dressings and Swithland slate roofs. West tower, nave with north
aisle and chancel in one. Tower is wider than it is long, since part of it
collapsed and was re-built more narrowly. Angle buttressed, plain chamfered
bell chamber lights with wood tracery. Embattled parapet with simple
finials. South wall largely of 1874, in filling a former south arcade of the
C14. The windows are in a Perpendicular style. South door and porch also
Victorian. 2 profiles of early roof structures visible against tower wall.
Chancel has 3 light window, Victorian in Decorated style. Renewed 3 light
Perpendicular window in north wall, blocked square headed opening and doorway
with hollow and roll moulded architrave. Inside, the west tower arch is early
C13: narrow and double chamfered, the inner thick chamfer is carried on heavy
corbel heads. Blocked south arcade of 3 bays is late C13 or early C14, double
chamfered with stops and octagonal shafts and abaci. The north arcade however
is C12: low round shafts have projecting abaci and stepped segmental arches.
The eastern bay cuts the remains of an earlier round headed window with
voussoirs, the sole visible evidence for the early dating of the church. Nave
roof is largely Victorian but using medieval tie beams. Eastern-most bay
alongside the chancel is a later construction, probably C14, with double
chamfered arch and semi-octagonal respond. Possible C17 communion table and
C18 altar rails. Various C15 embossed patterned tiles in the north aisle.
Glass in the style of Kempe in east window, 1896 depicting Saints Bartholomew
and Philip with Christ. Monuments in the north aisle: on the east wall a
memorial stone in a broken pediment, black, yellow and white marble, with urn
commemorates Charles Skrymsher Boothby d.l774, the panegyric dedicated by his
widow Anne, who is also interred below. Against the north wall, Henry Fawnt
Esq., and Elizabeth who was his third wife. The two recumbent effigies lie on
a tomb chest beneath an aedicule where red faced putti pull back curtains.
The effigies are loosely shrouded. The carving is crude but exuberant and
painted. Inscription behind the figures records the children of all Henry's
marriages with their deaths, marriages and issue. Font is probably C12 or
C13. Round basin on central shaft with four squared outer legs.
Listing NGR: SP6033694997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188907
- 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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