Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188153
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188153
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, 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 HELEN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 65815 91781
Details
SADDINGTON SP 69 SE MAIN STREET (South East Side)
2/80 Church of St. Helen
GV II*
Parish Church. Fabric of C13 to C14, the detail the result of a restoration in 1872-3. Ironstone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. West tower nave with clerestory and chancel. Late C13 4 stage west tower: second and third stages are of banded ironstone and limestone. Paired foiled lights to bell chamber. Embattled parapet with gargoyles. West doorway with continuous moulding and 2-light Decorated window above with re-cut tracery. Victorian style doorway in aisle of cobble stone construction, and Victorian tracery in a bland Decorated style to windows. Priests doorway in tall chancel in Decorated style though the 4-light east window is in the Perpendicular style. However the jambs of a medieval window are still visible in the east wall. North doorway is C14: shafts and richly moulded arch, flanked by tall Victorian statues contained in a Victorian gabled porch. Inside, the tall west tower arch has continuous double chamfering. The arcades appear to be late C13: clustered shafts support double chamfered arches. The chancel arch is of 1872/3, short shafts are supported by angels as corbels. Inside, the chancel is almost entirely Victorian in detail but the piscina is C14 with fleurons to the cusped arch, and there is a worn probably C17 alabaster tomb slab with an incised figure. Medieval font: a plain octagonal basin on a chamfered Victorian base.
Listing NGR: SP6581591781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191301
- 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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