Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STEEPLE ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320400
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STEEPLE ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320400
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, STEEPLE ROW
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 ALL SAINTS, STEEPLE ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Charnwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 53810 19942
Details
SK 5319 NE
10/86
15.3.65
STEEPLE ROW
(east side)
Church of All Saints
I
Church, mainly C14, restored and enlarged 1862 by G G Scott. Of ashlar. Nave and
aisles (with secondary south aisle added 1862 between south transept and porch),
transepts, chancel, 4-stage C15 west tower. Four-bay nave with pinnacles and
battlements. Three-light aisle windows with decorated tracery. Three-light C15
clerestory windows, 2 to each bay. Chancel with perpendicular windows to north and
south, but decorated 5-light east window. Tower: west doorway with shields and
leaves carved in the spandrels, 5-light perpendicular west window, 3-light blind
window above. Bell stage has 2 tall 2-light windows with transoms and quatrefoil
heads flanked by blank panels with identical tracery. Pinnacles and battlements
above (restored 1950). Interior: very lofty tower arch. Quatrefoil arcade piers.
C19 roofs. Sedilia and piscina in chancel. Piscina and aumbry in south chapel.
C19 wrought iron altar table in south aisle. Fine monument to Joanna Walters,
d.1673, carved with angels holding a curtain to either side of inscription tablet,
and the shrouded bodies of a woman and 2 babies beneath. Some C15 brasses. Fine
collection of carved Swithland slate headstones in churchyard. N Pevsner,
[Leicestershire and Rutland.
Listing NGR: SK5381019942
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189457
- 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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