The Orton Trust Workshop
THE ORTON TRUST WORKSHOP, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213823
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Orton Trust Workshop
- Statutory Address:
- THE ORTON TRUST WORKSHOP, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213823
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- The Orton Trust Workshop
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ORTON TRUST WORKSHOP, 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:
- THE ORTON TRUST WORKSHOP, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Orton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80566 79417
Details
ORTON MAIN STREET SP 87 NW (north west side) 5/51 The Orton Trust Workshop 25.10.51 (formerly listed as Church of All Saints) II* Church, now stonemasonry centre. C13/14 with earlier origins, restored 1868-87 and 1906. Coursed rubblestone with some dressings and stone slate and parapeted roof, with stone-coped gables. Choir, nave, south aisle and west tower. Choir has 2-light east window with Y tracery and hood mould with block stops. Blank north wall and 2-light window to south with perpendicular tracery and flat- arched head with hood mould. North wall of nave has two 2-light windows with Y tracery and hood moulds with carved stops. Similar windows to south aisle with narrow south-east lancet. Clerestory has two 2-light windows with perpendicular tracery and flat-arched heads with hood moulds. South porch has chamfered arch dying into carved corbels, and many-moulded doorway within, with hood mould which has head stops. C19 plank door. C13 and C14 3-stage west tower has small narrow lancets to 1st stage, blank walling to 2nd stage and four 2-light bell- chamber openings with geometrical tracery and hood moulds with carved stops. String course, crenellated parapet and 4 small pinnacles. Interior has been cleared of fittings for present use and some partition walls erected but has chancel arch with round-arched head, 3-bay south arcade with double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers and unchamfered pointed nave arch. Font with 4 pro- jecting human and animal heads. Stained glass to east, north nave and south choir windows.
Listing NGR: SP8056679417
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398473
- 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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