CHURCH OF ST LUKE

CHURCH OF ST LUKE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1294719
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST LUKE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST LUKE, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1294719
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST LUKE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST LUKE, MAIN 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 LUKE, MAIN STREET

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Thurnby and Bushby
National Grid Reference:: SK 64705 03931

Details

THURNBY

SK 60 SW MAIN STREET (North Side) 4/111 29.12.66 Church of St. Luke

GV II*

Church. C12 - C15, much rebuilt in and new chancel of 1870-3. Rebuilding by Slater and Carpenter. Granite rubble stone. Coursed squared ironstone and ashlar limestone tower. Parapetted leaded roofs with stone coped gables and finials. Buttresses and angle buttresses with set-offs. Central tower, nave, aisles, chancel and S porch. Tower of 3 stages of C12, late C13 and mid C14 with 4 circular piers with many scalloped capitals, 2-lights above to N and S, clock face, 1-lights to E and W, and in upper stage of ashlar, 4 2-light bell openings, diagonal buttresses, frieze with gargoyles, battlements and crocketted pinnacles. C19 NE stair turret. Nave has W window with Geometric tracery, 3 bay arcades with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers, 3 2-light clerestory windows either side, probably mid C14, and C19 3 bay low-pitch tie beam roof. C19 N aisle with N door and 5 windows. Intersected tracery with daggers. C19 chancel : the sedilia either side with black marble shafts, 2 piscinas, and E window with stained glass of 1913. Boarded wagon roof supported by carved wooden angels on stone corbels. Tile (probably Minton) floor. S aisle has 4 windows : Intersected tracery with daggers, and stained glass of 1929, 1885, 1887 and 1933. Piscina and double sedilia. S doorway, the arch with double hollow chamfer. C19 S porch, with part of doorway arch decorated with zig-zag built into it. Tub-shaped font on eight-shafted foot, probably late C13. Painting of Ascension, probably Venetian c1600, or copy. Thurnby Parish Church guide, 1974, and Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK6470503931

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Legacy System number:: 190769
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)

Legal

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