CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1188364
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1188364
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Scraptoft
National Grid Reference:: SK 64761 05577

Details

SCRAPTOFT SK 60 NW CHURCH HILL (East Side)

1/85 Church of All Saints

29.12.66

GV I

Church. C13-C15, restored 1867. Coursed squared stone and rubble stone, mostly granite rubble stone in S aisle, with stone dressings and leaded roofs. Stone coped gables and parapet to chancel. W tower, nave, aisles, chancel and S porch. Tower of 2 stages with S angle buttresses, W buttress and N diagonal buttress, all with set-offs. Small S door with blocked 1-light over. 4 simple Perp 2-light bell openings, battlements and crocketted pinnacles. Blocked nave arch of which hood mould remains. Small C19 W door from nave to tower. 4 bay arcades with 2 wide arches and a narrower arch at either end. Double chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Perp clerestory with 3 2-light N windows and 4 similar S windows. C15 4 bay low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with carved bosses and blind arcading in gables. N aisle has restored windows, the N W with Curvilinear tracery and mid C19 stained glass, the 2 N with Intersected tracery and stained glass of 1899 by A. Ballantine and Gardiner, Edinburgh, and the N E with Reticulated tracery. N many-moulded doorway. Restored C15 4 bay low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with carved bosses. Double chamfered chancel arch, the inner supported on carved head corbels. Chancel has 2 blocked windows to both N and S. E window with Curvilinear tracery and stained glass of 1893. C15 3 bay low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with blind arcading in gables. S aisle has 3 Perp windows, 2 with mid 1920's stained glass (peacock monogram) and another of 1979 by John Hayward. S W window with Curvilinear tracery and mid C19 stained glass. Small niche and c1300 S doorway. C15 4 bay low-pitch tie-beam truss roof with carved bosses and heads and blind arcading in gables. C19 gable S porch, the upper part of wooden open work. C13 round font. Series of C18 finely carved slate tomb slabs in chancel. Series of C18/early C19 wall monuments including those to Sir Edward Wigley, died 1710, and wife (2 fine busts), James Wigley, died 1765, and Andrew Noel, died 1736. C14 recumbent effigy of a priest, said to be a Prior of Coventry, now set sideways in N chancel wall : much defaced. Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK6476105577

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Legacy System number:: 190743
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.