Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177828
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177828
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, MAIN 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 NICHOLAS, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thistleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 91336 17976
Details
THISTLETON
SK 91 NW MAIN STREET (North side)
3/141 Church of St. Nicholas
14.6.54
GV II*
Church with C14 tower and rest mostly of 1879. Ashlar with Collyweston slate roof and stone coped gable. W tower, nave and chancel. W tower of 3 stages with plinth, clasping buttresses, 4 bell openings with hood moulds, corner gargoyles, battlements, and pinnacles with crockets. W window with hood mould and label stops and small W door beneath. Staircase door within. W arch to nave with double chamfer, one hollow, the other dying into curved responds. Nave with shallow curved boarded roof. 3 S windows with Curvilinear type tracery and S door. S porch of stone with gable and wooden open work. Single similar N window. Stone floor with diamond pattern of narrow black tiles. Chancel with curved apse within, polygonal without. Boarded roof of cusped section the beams producing square panels. East rose window with 2 further windows either side. In between and either side 4 terracotta statues of saints in gabled niches. Signed by M. Raggi, 1879. Also, almost certainly by him, a terracotta relief of The Entombment over the altar. Minton tiled floor and C19 stained glass overall in Church. Stone pulpit reached from chancel through doorway. Foliated gable over. Contemporary font and open carved oak pews. Outside around apse a moulded band rises over windows and a rich ball flower and foliage frieze with gargoyles. Door to N organ vestry. N wall close to rear wall of Old Rectory (q.v.) with which Church forms notable group.
Listing NGR: SK9133617976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186711
- 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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