Church of Christ
CHURCH OF CHRIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294192
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Christ
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF CHRIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294192
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Christ
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF CHRIST
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 CHRIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Smeeton Westerby
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 67758 92715
Details
SP 69 SE SMEETON WESTERBY SMEETON WESTERBY 1/64 Church of Christ (formerly listed as 7.12.66 Christ Church)
- II
Parish church. 1848-9 by H Woodyer in the Decorated style. Repaired 1873 and 1895. Grey stone with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs with stepped, coped gables. Nave with west bellcote, north aisle, south aisle, south porch, chancel, vestry. West elevation has single 2-light pointed arch window with flowing tracery set within a large heavily moulded pointed arch springing from two angle buttresses with set-offs. Above, an arrowslet window, and above again an octagonal bellcote, with crenellated cornice, and spire with topknot and weather- cock. Single light bell openings on west, south-east and north-east faces, and small buttresses on north and south faces. North aisle, west wall has large lancet with hoodmould. North wall has a buttress with set-offs with to right a 2-light window with reticulated tracery in a square frame. To left a similar 3-light window. East wall has a 2-light pointed arch window with hoodmould. South aisle, west wall has a large lancet with hoodmould. South wall has two 2-light pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds. South porch gabled with cross finial, with diagonal buttresses and double chamfered pointed arch doorway. Stone benches inside porch. Heavily moulded pointed arch south doorway with double plank doors. South wall has chamfered plinth and buttress with set-offs, with a lancet with hoodmould to left and a 2-light pointed arch window with flowing tracery and hoodmould to right. Diagonal buttress with set-offs at south-east corner. Chancel east wall has chamfered plinth and single 3-light pointed arch window with reticulated tracery and hoodmould. East gable has cross finial. To right, vestry east window is a wooden casement with plain arched stone frame. Chancel roof continues down over vestry to north. Vestry has doorway with chamfered frame and plank door. Then a lancet with hoodmould in north wall of chancel. Interior: narrow entry to bellcote above west window. 4-bay nave arcades with quatrefoil piers with capitals and bases and double-chamfered pointed arches. Chancel arch is double-chamfered with hoodmould and responds with capitals. Pointed chamfered doorway to vestry with trefoil head piscina to right. Marble reredos with dentilled cornice and floral patterns in circles below east window. Sedile below south-east window, with chamfered arch with sexfoil cusping and small shields. Early C20 organ in west bay of north aisle. Octagonal bowl and stem font with ornate Gothic wooden cover in south aisle. Altar, altar rails, choir stalls, pulpit, lectern, rood screen, pews and wainscotting all C19. South aisle, east wall has WWI marble memorial plaque with WWII brass memorial plaque below. Stained glass, late C19 and early C20, in south aisle, the east window by Kempe & Co 1902, and in chancel windows. Nave roof has 3 trusses with arch braces and crown posts. Ceramic tile floors, with Minton tiled sanctuary. VCH, V, 186.
Listing NGR: SP6775892715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191391
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964), 186
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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