CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295237
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-1957
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295237
Date first listed:: 07-Oct-1957
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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 MARY, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Blaby (District Authority)
Parish:: Wigston Parva
National Grid Reference:: SP 46610 89782

Details

WIGSTON PARVA CHURCH LANE SP 48 NE (east side)

5/53 Church of St. Mary

7.10.57 II

Parish church. C11, C13, C14, C16, restored 1845 and c.l900. Random rubble, cobbles and dressed stone with stone dressings and plain tile roof. Brick and stone plinth. Nave and chancel under continuous roof. West end has a central double lancet with Y tracery and hood mould with mask stops. Above, a square wooden bellcote with cusped openings, leaded tent roof and cross. North side has to west a chamfered round headed C11 doorway with hood mould and imposts. C19 close boarded door. East end has a C14 double lancet with Y tracery. South side has a central single lancet, C19, with hood mould, and to its right, a similar lancet. To east, a C13 single lancet. Interior has a panelled dado to north side and west end. Roof has 2 principal rafter trusses, C16, with cambered tie beams, that to west with a boss. Both have V struts and collars. East end has a stained glass window, 1965. Fittings include an octagonal font removed from Hemingford, Hunts., c.1900, an oak altar with C13 style arcading, c.1909, panelled reredos, C19 rectangular skeleton pulpit with 2 book rests, a double round headed framed board with Creed, and 2 similar round headed commandment boards.

Listing NGR: SP4661089782

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Legacy System number:: 189043
Legacy System:: LBS

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