Church of St John the Baptist
Church of St John the Baptist, Market Place, Whitwick
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178164
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St John the Baptist, Market Place, Whitwick
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178164
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St John the Baptist, Market Place, Whitwick
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 John the Baptist, Market Place, Whitwick
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 43501 16193
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 July 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
SK 41 NW
1/18
COALVILLE
Whitwick
NORTH STREET (east side)
Church of St John the Baptist
8.11.49
II*
Church, late C13 and C14 restored 1848, rainwater heads dated 1898, of Charnwood granite rubble with ashlar tower, clerestorey and porch, Swithland slate roof to nave and chancel, lead roofs to aisles.
Nave, aisles, chancel, porch, four-stage west tower, five-light east window with intersecting tracery. Soth side of chancel has string course with ballflower and a two-light window with plate tracery and a doorway and two pairs of lancets beneath. South side of nave has two two-light windows with Geometrical tracery, a cusped tomb recess beneath a gable and a gabled porch. Four two-light square-headed C17 clerestorey windows. The tower has angle buttresses with niches and the bell-stage has on each face two-light bell-openings with Decorated tracery, flanked by blank panels with identical tracery.
Interior: four bay nave arcade of octagonal piers. C19 roofs, but the nave roof incorporates a C17 tie-beam. C14 octagonal font. Tomb effigy of knight, presumably from the exterior tomb recess. Tablet in memory of Samuel Litherland of Thringstone, d.1695, with winged cherubs and skull.
Listing NGR: SK4350116193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 187883
- 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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