Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295291
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295291
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, HIGH STREET
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 LAWRENCE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Measham
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 33528 12218
Details
MEASHAM HIGH STREET SK 31 SW 4/41 (South Side) Church of St. Lawrence 24.11.65 GV II* Church of early C14 and earlier C18. Ashlar and some coursed rubble. W tower of shortly after 1733, nave and aisles (no structural chancel) of early C14 and Perp S.porch. Tower in classical style of 3 stages with moulded bands, angle pilasters, 4 round arched bell openings, battlements and pinnacles. W door dated 1679 with round arched surround having impost blocks and keystone. Tower S wall has contemporary window with Y tracery. Nave and aisles have moulded plinth, buttresses and diagonal buttresses with set-offs and some battlemented finials, battlements and slate roofs. N aisle W end has renewed small round cusped window over blocked door. N windows have Intersected tracery, and attached to N wall an open arch probably for gateway. NE window Reticulated tracery. SW window C19 Curvilinear tracery; S windows Geometrical with 1 C19 Curvilinear; SE, Reticulated. E window renewed Curvilinear. S porch with angle buttresses and close round-arched ribbing to support ceiling and cusped 1-light to left. Nave arcades of 5 bays on quatrefoil piers with double chamfered arches. 6 bay flat-topped 3-light Perp clerestory and C19 low-pitched tie beam roof with wall-pieces and braces on carved corbels. Complete set of oak box pews and W gallery c1843 and mid C19 carved organ front. Fragments of medieval glass in a S window, another with stained glass of 1866 in rich flower scrolls (Abney memorial) and E window stained glass of 1910. Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SK3352812218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 187931
- 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.
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