Church of St Luke
CHURCH OF ST LUKE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294913
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294913
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE
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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 LUKE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Laughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 65905 89157
Details
SP 68 NE LAUGHTON LAUGHTON
4/30 Church of St Luke 7.12.66 GV II
Parish church. C13, C18, restored 1879-80 by Charles Kirk of Sleaford. Nave with west bellcote, chancel, vestry. Cobblestone and ironstone rubble with ashlared quoins. Graded Swithland slate roofs. Coped gables with kneelers. Moulded iron- stone cornice. West wall has central buttress with set-off band with C13 chamfered lancet below. To south, a diagonal buttress and to north an angle buttress, both with set-offs. Above, surmounting to gable, a stone bellcote with coped gable with kneelers and chamfered arched opening with engaged shafts with capitals and bases. Heavily restored 1879-82. North wall has 3 pairs of C19 chamfered lancets with hoodmoulds, separated by 2 buttresses. Blocked C13 arcades are visible and to east there is a blocked C13 pointed arch piscina. South wall has central doorway with moulded pointed arch, hoodmould with head- stops, and engaged shafts with capitals and bases. Double plank doors. To west and east, single buttresses with set-offs each followed by a single pair of C19 chamfered lancets. Buttress at south east corner. Blocked C13 arcades visible. Cross finial on east gable. Chancel is C19, in C13 style. Ironstone plinth with chamfered ashlar set-offs. South wall has central priest's doorway with shouldered semi-circular arch with hoodmould and stylised stops, and plank door. To east and west, single pairs of chamfered lancets with hoodmoulds and foliate stops. 3-light pointed arch east window, with geometrical tracery and hoodmould with stops. Cross finial on gable. North vestry has diagonal buttresses and 2-light chamfered arch east window. Interior: rendered walls. West lancet in large, round-headed splayed reveal. Pairs of C19 lancets in north and south walls of nave have interior shafts. Pointed, double-chamfered chancel arch with hood- mould with stops, and responds with capitals and bases. North wall of chancel has 4-centred chamfered arch with floral corbels, leading to vestry, and a trefoil head piscina. South wall, window has interior shafts. Sedilia with shafts with annulets, piscina on floral corbel. East window has C13 triple moulded jambs, houldmould with headstops and plain cill. C19 roofs. C13 octagonal bowl and stem font, with roll-moulded sides and moulded C13 capital inverted as a base. Late C18 altar table and altar rails. Late C19 pews. C18 chest. Early C20 lectern and organ. Monuments: various late C18 and C19 tablets including a late C18 marble memorial to Shuttleworth family, on north wall of chancel, with a pediment topped by an urn, and a panel at the base with a weeping figure leaning upon an urn. On south wall of nave a slate tablet with armorial brass inset, to Col William Cole (d 1698) Lord of the Manor and a Commission Officer in Rayner Armies. VCH, V, 218-9.
Listing NGR: SP6590589157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191357
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964), 218-219
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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