CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1230687
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1230687
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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 ST MARY, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Charnwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Sileby
National Grid Reference:: SK 60051 15174

Details

SILEBY

SK 61 NW HIGH STREET (West Side) 4/156 1.6.66 Church of St. Mary

GV II*

Church. C13-C15, restored C19. Ashlar and granite rubble stone with parapetted roofs. Plinth, stone dressings and stepped buttresses mostly with gargoyles. Tracery mostly restored. W tower, nave, aisles, chancel, chancel chapels and S porch. Tower of 3 stages, ashlar to W, of C14/C15 with clasping buttresses and SW stair. Many moulded W doorway with fleurons in arch and renewed blank quatrefoils in spandrels over, 3-light W window with Perp tracery, 2-light flat-topped window over, 4 paired 2-light bell openings with battlemented transoms, quatrefoiled lozenge frieze, battlements, gargoyles and shafted and crocketted pinnacles. Clock face to E (in centre of bell opening) and to N. Inside are arches to aisles and tall nave arch, all double chamfered on semi-circular responds. Late C13 N arcade of 3 bays (E wider) with many moulded arches on quatrefoil piers. Hood mould. Nail head and dog tooth decoration. c1300 3 bay S arcade with double chamfered arches on circular piers. Perp clerestory with 4 3-light windows either side. Restored 4 bay low-pitch crancked tie-beam roof, wall posts and curved braces from stone carved head corbels with wooden figures over. Carved bosses. N aisle has N doorway, W window with Intersected tracery, 3 N windows with Curvilinear and Reticulated tracery and double chamfered arch on octagonal responds into N chancel chapel, now organ chamber. Here N window with Perp tracery and NE window with Curvilinear tracery. Double chamfered chancel arch with hood mould and grotesque animal stops. Similar arches to chancel chapels, curving and semicircular responds. On N wall of chancel tomb recess with nail head decoration, small N door, archway to former rood, N window and 2 S windows with Curvilinear tracery. Similar E window with C19 mosaic reredos below. Tiled floor, probably Minton. C19 3 bay low pitch roof. Outside, the chancel has crocketted pinnacles and finial on E end gable. S chancel chapel has SE window with Curvilinear tracery and 2 S windows with Reticulated tracery and piscina with ogee arch. In S aisle 4 windows with Curvilinear tracery. Many-moulded S doorway arch with double shafts each side. 2 storey S porch with battlemented parapet and many-moulded arch to doorway with circular responds. Window over and to either side of porch. C12/C13 font, wall monument in coloured marble to Katherine Aynesworth, 1807, by Shenton, Hull and Pollard of Leicester, wall monument of 1886 to former Vicar, Georgian Royal Arms, painted on canvas, over chancel arch, and brass lectern, a memorial of 1929, and resited lead inscription tablet of 1727. Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK6005115174

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Legacy System number:: 405692
Legacy System:: LBS

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