Priory Church of St Anthony
PRIORY CHURCH OF ST ANTHONY, GREGORY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247622
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Church of St Anthony
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY CHURCH OF ST ANTHONY, GREGORY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247622
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Church of St Anthony
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY CHURCH OF ST ANTHONY, GREGORY 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:
- PRIORY CHURCH OF ST ANTHONY, GREGORY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 55288 38800
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK53NE GREGORY STREET, Lenton 646-1/7/237 (South side) 11/08/52 Priory Church of St Anthony (Formerly Listed as: GREGORY STREET, Lenton Priory Church)
GV II
Chapel of the Hospital of St Anthony at Lenton Priory, now church. Chancel c1108, remainder 1883. Additions at west end c1992. Coursed rubble and coursed squared stone, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with coped gables. Plinth and moulded eaves. PLAN: chancel, vestry, nave with clerestory and aisles. EXTERIOR: chancel has angle buttresses and 3-light Decorated east window. South side has a pointed arched window to west, C13, and a C19 3-light flat-headed window. Vestry, to north, has flat roof and angle buttress. Porch to north with shouldered door flanked by 2-light flat-headed windows. Nave clerestory has 6 pointed arched clerestory windows each side. West gable has angle buttresses and a square wooden bell turret with lead covered pyramidal spire. Chamfered pointed arched door covered by C20 glazed lobby, and above, a 3-light pointed arched window. South aisle has buttresses and 5 flat-headed windows, 2 lights. Similar windows at each end. Buttressed north aisle, 4 bays, has 3 flat-headed windows, 3 lights, and a similar window to west. INTERIOR: rendered. Chancel has C19 moulded arch without responds, and boarded wagon roof. East end has C19 stained glass window. North side has segmental pointed opening with organ, and C19 aumbry and piscina. South side has C13 piscina and C12 window with C19 stained glass. Nave has 4-bay arcades with octagonal piers and 4-centred arches with hood moulds. Queen post roof with traceried spandrels. West end has pointed arched doorway and memorial stained glass window, 1946. Aisles have lean-to roofs and plain windows. North aisle has traceried wooden screen to east. Fittings include Arms of Charles I on board, and C19 font, pulpit, lectern, benches and stalls. Memorials include marble and slate tablet, 1833. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 253; Church guide: Lenton: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SK5528838800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457219
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Guide to the Priory Church of St Anthony, (1971)
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 253
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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