Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1295308
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1295308
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, MAIN 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 ANDREW, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whissendine
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 83312 14309
Details
WHISSENDINE
SK 81 SW MAIN STREET (North side)
5/150 Church of St. Andrew
14.6.54
GV I
Large church of C13-C15, restored 1870. Restoration by Sir G.G. Scott and J. Goddard. Ashlar and coursed squared stone with parapetted, battlemented and Collyweston slate roofs. W tower, nave, aisles, transepts, chancel and S porch. Fine C14 W tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses, the top parts moulded, W door and window linked by giant arch with 3 orders of shafts, 3 ogee-headed niches above, and tall elaborate bell-stage. Double 2-light bell openings with similar blank openings either side and shafts. Staircase on SW corner. Gargoyles, head frieze, parapet with arched openings and pinnacles with octagonal spirelets. Nave has C13 5 bay arcades, many moulded arches with head-moulds and head-stops on circular and quatrefoil piers. Perp clerestory with 6 large windows either side and fleuron frieze and battlements outside. 7 bay low-pitch tie beam roof with bosses, restored 1728, and with wall pieces and brace supported by 12 wooden seated figures under nodding-ogee canopies. C14 aisles have plinths, angle buttresses, head and fleuron friezes and battlements. Restored lean-to roof. Central N and S doors with 2 Perp windows either side. Similar W windows. C14 transepts, N with double chamfered arches to aisle and chancel, S with many hollow moulded arches to aisle and chancel. N window has Curvilinear tracery, S is incomplete but with Perp tracery. Chancel has windows of 1865, Perp tracery to E, with stained glass by Kempe of 1892, and Curvilinear to N and S. Roof is 4 bay low-pitch tie beam with wall pieces and braces on head corbels. Below a painted wooden high relief coat of arms and inscription records that Lady Abigail Sherard 'new roofed chansel, 1640'. Perp S porch with hollow chamfered arch and wrought iron gates, probably C19, and C13 S door arch. Screen between S aisle and S transept is C15 with ribbed coving and C16 doors. Brought from former chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge, at time of restoration. Font is Perp and octagonal with quatrefoils. Later base and C19 carved oak cover. 2 C12/C13 stone coffin lids in S aisle. C18 wall monuments and 2 painted hatchments. C19 brass lectern and carved stone pulpit of 1888. Carved, painted and gilded reredos and carved oak chancel panelling and pews of cl900. White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877, and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SK8331214309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186720
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
Whites Directory in Leicestershire and Rutland, (1877)
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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