Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188168
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188168
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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 PETER, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shackerstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 37413 06737
Details
SK 30 NE SHACKERSTONE CHURCH ROAD (north- east side) 2/85
7.11.66 Church of St. Peter
II*
Parish church. Late C15 west tower, the rest rebuilt 1845. Ashlar walls and lead covered roofs of low pitch with stone coped verges. West tower, 3-bay nave with aisles, 2-bay chancel. West tower: 3 stages marked by offsets, with moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses dying into the belfry stage, and crenellated parapet with hollow-chamfered string and gargoyles at the corners. 2-centred west doorway of 2 chamfered orders with returned hood-mould. 3-light window above with hollow-chamfered surround, depressed 4-centred arch and returned hood mould. Rectangular loop in each face of the second stage. Belfry openings of 2 trefoil-headed lights beneath a 2-centred drop arch with supermullions over the lights containing a central quatrefoil. Nave and aisles: 3-light aisle windows with panelled tracery beneath 2-centred arches. Square-headed clerestory windows of 2 trefoil-headed lights with sunken spandrels. Diagonal buttresses at the corners, plain aisle parapets with moulded coping, crenellated nave parapet. 2-centred south entrance with 2 orders of ogee mouldings. Chancel: 2-centred windows with Y-tracery; the east window has cusped intersecting tracery. Buttresses at the bay divisions and diagonal buttresses at the corners. Interior: 3-bay nave arcades of double chamfered pointed arches on octagonal columns with moulded capitals. 2-centred tower arch. Tall chancel arch on semi-octagonal columns with moulded capitals and hollow chamfered hood mould terminating in heads. Low pitched king-post roof over nave with bracketed tie beams, the brackets springing from moulded stone corbels; arch-braced collar roof over chancel. Fixtures and fittings: Small west gallery within the tower, the lower part of the tower arch having been screened off to form a vestry. Octagonal font with the panelled sides depicting alternately, angels and symbols of the Evangelists. Full set of C19 box pews. Stalls of same period with poppy heads. C19 hexagonal pulpit with panel tracery to the sides. B.O.E. pp. 731 - 2.
Listing NGR: SK3741306737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188215
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 731-2
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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