Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228308
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228308
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN, 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 HELEN, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sibbertoft
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 68146 82768
Details
SIBBERTOFT CHURCH STREET SP68SE (West side) 4/86 Church of St. Helen 02/11/54
GV II*
Church. C13 and C14. South aisle and porch added and church restored c.1862-63 by Browning. Squared coursed lias and cobble with slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Aisled nave and chancel and west tower. Chancel: South elevation of 2-window range of 2-light windows with south door between. 3-light east window has Intersecting tracery. Gabled roof with ashlar parapets and finial. South aisle of 3-window range of 2-light windows with Plate tracery. Similar 3-light east window. Lean-to roof with ashlar parapets and kneelers. Porch to far left has C14 four-centred inner arch and C19 double-chamfered outer arch. Gabled roof with ashlar parapets and kneelers and finial. North aisle and chapel of 2-window range of 2- and 3-light Perpendicular windows under 4-centred arches. North door between windows has 4-centred arch with decorated spandrels. 3-light Perpendicular east window. Gabled and lean-to roofs with ashlar parapets. One bay north elevation to west end of nave has late C13 two-light window and evidence of blocked window at junction of north aisle. Shallow pitched nave roof has moulded ashlar parapet. West tower, probably C14, of 2 stages with clasping buttresses at western corners. West door under 4-centred arch has 2-light window above. 2-light bell chamber openings to each face of second stage. Plain ashlar parapet above. Interior: C14 double-chamfered chancel arch with octagonal responds. Nave: South arcade of 4 bays of C19 double-chamfered arches with circular piers and foliated capitals. The western bay of the arcade is smaller with a square pier and forms part of integral south porch. North nave arcade of 2 bays of C14 double-chamfered arches with octagonal responds separated by a section of blank wall. Two C19 openings from the nave into the north chapel, now a vestry. C14 double-chamfered tower arch. C19 roof structures. C19 stained glass to all chancel windows, north-aisle north-east window and tower west window. Monuments; West wall of north aisle to Ambrose Saunders died 1765, marble tablet with flanking pilasters and open pediment over. C19 decorative tiled floor, C19 pulpit supported on 7 marble pillars has staircase to rear with tiled walls. Fragment of rood screen carving now over south chancel door is decorated with twisted branches and crocketing. Font C19 with marble pillars. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.403).
Listing NGR: SP6814682768
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 403
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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