Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1211040
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1211040
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH 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 MARY, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lutterworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 54245 84453
Details
LUTTERWORTH CHURCH STREET SP5484 1323-0/9/66 (West side) 11/01/55 Church of St Mary GV I
Church. C13, altered in C14 and C15. Top stage of tower early C18. Restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1866-69. West tower, clerestoried nave with north and south aisles and south porch, chancel. Random rubble stone generally with dressed stone and ashlar dressings, quoins and eaves and gable parapets. Ashlar top stage to tower. Plain leaded roofs. Tower of three stages with massive clasping buttresses rising to second stage, that to west very large indeed, enclosing stair turret. Weathering course dividing first and second stages, with two bands below and one above. Hollow-chamfered band, with cross-pattern panelling below top stage. Shallow panelled pilaster-strip quoins to top stage, carrying hollow-chamfered cornice, panelled parapet and huge crocketted pinnacles with arched niches in pedestals. Large two-centred arched belfry openings in top stage, with Y-tracery, smaller 2-light windows of C14 on second stage and lancet windows towards ground on lower stage. Aisle west windows with intersecting tracery to right and curvilinear tracery to left. Nave with crenellated parapet and five-bay clerestorey, C14 three-light windows with central light rising into apex of each arch. Irregular fenestration with four windows to north and five to south, C19 restorations of C14 curvilinear decorated windows. East window of south aisle with reticulated tracery. Gabled south porch with crenellated parapet carrying crocketted finials over angle buttresses flanking double hollow-chamfered and wave-moulded arch on three orders of columns; crocketted finial over gable. Two C14 windows in chancel flanking C13 lancet with hoodmould. Evidence of two more lancets in east wall. C15 east window, restored by Scott, with round blank window in gable above. Interior: multi-chamfered tower arch. Four-bay arcades with double-chamfered arches on tall slender octagonal piers, C14. Chancel arch double-chamfered in a continuous moulding; panelled soffit. C14 tie-beam aisle roofs. Nave roof, also C14, with brattished tiebeams, arcaded in the spandrels of the braces, which stand on corbelled colonnettes, and to either side of the king-posts. Moulded ridge-piece and purlins; various moulded bosses. C19 chancel roof. Fittings: C13 piscina. C15 wooden pulpit, tall with blank traceried panels. Font: octagonal, stone, C19. Communion table (now in north aisle); C16, wood, on lion supports. Screen; one-light divisions with ogee-headed lights, probably later C19, (now on north side of chancel). Stained glass; north aisle east window, 1869 by Burlison and Grylls; east window, 1884 by Clayton and Bell;, chancel south-west window, 1889 by Warrington. Sculpture; Wycliffe Memorial, (east end of south aisle), white marble relief by Richard Westmacott, Junior. Late-C14 painting over north aisle doorway of three figures, possibly the Three Kings, possibly the 'three living and three dead' allegory. Monuments; early C15 alabaster tomb chest in north aisle with two recumbent effigies. Man in gown over armour. Against the tomb chest are angels with shields under flat canopies. Depressed arch to tomb recess with demi-figure of an angel holding a soul in a napkin at the apex. Two brasses, to John Field, d 1403, and his wife, d 1418, in the north aisle, and brasses to a civilian and his wife, c 1470, in the nave. Large Doom over the chancel arch, with figures rising out of tombs and large seated Christ in majesty surrounded by angels over. John Wycliffe was Rector of Lutterworth from 1374 to 1384. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Williamson E, Brandwood G: Leicestershire and Rutland: London: 1984-: 298-300).
Listing NGR: SP5424584453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392559
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 298-300
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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