Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, LUTTERWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1292319
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, LUTTERWORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1292319
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, LUTTERWORTH ROAD
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 MARY, LUTTERWORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bitteswell with Bittesby
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 53733 85855
Details
BITTESWELL LUTTERWORTH ROAD SP58NW 1323-0 3/15 (North side) 11/01/55 Church of St Mary II*
Church. C13 and C14, extended 1852 by W Parsons and altered and extended by Walter F Lyon in 1881-82. Random rubble stone with dressed quoins, gable parapets and crenellated side parapets to nave. Plain slate roofs. West tower, nave with south porch and north aisle, north vestry and chancel. Three-stage tower of C13/C14 with stepped angle buttresses. Deep recess on north side of tower with Perpendicular-style panelled soffit and hollow-chamfered arch. Short recessed spire. two-light square-headed belfry openings. Nave with three windows to south of C14, restored in C19. Aisle to north of 1881-82. Gabled south porch with double chamfers to arch and dripmould. Chancel rebuilt in 1881-82, two windows to south and vestry to north. Interior: double chamfered C14 tower arch. Three-bay north aisle with double-chamfered arcade on octagonal piers. Ceiling probably C19 with ribs and flattish vault. C19 chancel arch, double-chamfered on attached octagonal piers. Triple-chamfered round arch inside tower, west of tower arch, purpose unknown. Fittings: benches, font, pulpit, all C19. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Williamson E, Brandwood G: Leicestershire and Rutland: London: 1984-: 103).
Listing NGR: SP5373385855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 103
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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