Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, VICARAGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329230
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, VICARAGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329230
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, VICARAGE LANE
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 PAUL, VICARAGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Eaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 36128 41504
Details
PARISH OF LITTLE EATON VICARAGE LANE SK 34 SE 1/72 (North Side) Church of St Paul GV II
Parish church. 1791, enlarged and remodelled 1837, enlarged 1851, restored 1869 by Giles & Brookhouse. Coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings. Welsh slate roofs with stone coped gables. West tower, nave, large north aisle, chancel and north vestry. West tower of four stages divided by chamfered stringcourses. Clasping buttresses to west. West elevation has two semi-circular headed lancets with hoodmoulds. A similar lancet above and a small arrow slit above again. The north side has a flight of stone steps up to a semi-circular headed doorway. Arrow slit above. On the south side a semi-circular headed doorway with a stepped moulding and two roll mouldings. Hoodmould. Semi-circular headed lancet above and an arrow slit above again. Paired bell openings to all four sides, with nook shafts and cushion capitals. Circular opening above, all embraced by a semi-circular headed arch. Hoodmould. Battlemented parapet. The south side of the nave has two windows of paired semi-circular headed lights with a circle above, set within a larger arch. Small round arched lancet to right. Chancel south has two round-arched lancets with continuous hoodmould. Clasping buttresses at the east end. East window of three stepped round-arched lancets within a roll moulded super arch. Lean-to vestry has a 2-light chamfered mullion window. Large gabled north aisle, as big as the nave. East window similar to the main east window but unmoulded. The north side has a round-arched doorway with plank door. To the right a broad gabled north projection is all that survives of the 1791 building. It has one round-arched keyed window. West window similar to the aisle east window. Interior: north arcade of three round arches, circular piers and abaci, open trefoils in the spandrels. The nave has a boarded ceiling with exposed trusses with trefoil motifs. Similar roof in the north aisle. Stone font has a square bowl with incised motifs, on a circular base. Monuments: in the north aisle a gothic aedicule to John Tempest, died 1863, by J B Robinson of Derby. On the south wall a tablet to William Tempest, died 1842, by N Coulson. North gallery supported on two iron columns. Round-arched panels with painted commandments, either side of the aisle west window.
Listing NGR: SK3612841504
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352275
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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