Church of St Botolph

CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHURCH SIDE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1236177
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1950
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHURCH SIDE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1236177
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
05-Nov-1984
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHURCH SIDE

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHURCH SIDE

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

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Charnwood (District Authority)
Parish:
Shepshed
National Grid Reference:
SK 48104 19693

Details

SK 4819
9/103
18.1.50


CHURCH SIDE
(north side)
Church of St Botolph


(formerly listed under Queen Street)


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Parish Church, C13 west tower and spire. C15 nave, with clerestory and aisles, and
chancel, C19 north porch and south vestry, 1935. South transept with vestry by
Albert Herbert. C19 and C20 restorations. Of Charnwood granite rubble with ashlar
dressings and Swithland slate roofs. Perpendicular tracery to nave and chancel.
Three stage west tower lit by lancets, with angles clasped by buttresses. Two-light
bell chamber openings. Broach spire has 2-light lucernes with Y-tracery. Three-bay
nave has cruciform piers on tall bases. Roof dated 1636 and 1652 and renovated
1912. North aisle roof replaced 1952. Pointed chancel arch wth 2 continuously
chamfered orders. Chancel roof 1880. Medieval benches with heads and poppy heads
on the ends. C14 font. Pinscina in south aisle. Pulpit by R Norman Shaw (Andrew
Saint, Richard Norman Shaw, p 298). Chancel has piscina, C18 communion rail and a
series of very fine monuments to the Phillipps family of Garendon. (N Pevsner,
Leicestershire & Rutland, p 227; Harold Hack, Shepshed Parish Church). Many finely
carved Swithland slate headstones in the churchyard.


Listing NGR: SK4810419693

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Sources

Books and journals
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1982), 298
Mack, H, Shepshed Parish Church, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960), 227

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Ordnance survey map of Church of St Botolph

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