CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, GAULBY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1360631
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, GAULBY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1360631
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, GAULBY 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, GAULBY LANE

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Stoughton
National Grid Reference:: SK 64063 02112

Details

For those items listed under STOUGHTON. MAIN STREET.

The street name shall be amended to read: GAULBY LANE 4/90 ------------------------------------ STOUGHTON

SK 60 SW MAIN STREET (North Side) 4/90 29.12.66 Church of St. Mary

GV II*

Church. C14 tower, rest mostly of 1862. Latter by Dain and Smith. Ashlar, with Welsh slate and parapetted roofs. W tower, nave, aisles, chancel and S porch. Tower of 3 stages with 2-light W window, NW stair, 1-light, 4 bell openings, pointed trefoiled frieze, battlements with pinnacles, and crocketted spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes. Triple chamfered arch to nave on polygonal responds. 4 bay N arcade with 2 rounded and 2 pointed arches. Double chamfered arches on octagonal piers. 4 bay S arcade with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Clerestory with 4 3-light Perp. type windows either side. C19 4 bay low-pitch tie beam roof. Wide N aisle has 5 large windows, the Intersected tracery with cusping and cinquefoiled circles at apex. Possibly to the original design. N door. Many moulded chancel arch. Chancel has E window and 3 windows either side all with Curvilinear type tracery. C19 3 bay roof with curved braces to curved collars. Tiled foor, probably Minton. S aisle has E window with Curvilinear type tracery, 3 S windows with Reticulated, and the W window Intersected with daggers. Many moulded S doorway. Fine series of monuments in N aisle. Alabaster double table tomb to Thomas Farnham, died 1562, and wife. Recumbent effigies and 4 children holdings shields on sides. Wall monument to Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1631; and Sir George Beaumont, of 1737, signed by Scheemakers. Obelisk with shields between 2 urns. Slab to Roger Crosley, former Vicar, of 1633. Further C18 and C19 wall monuments. Painted wooden Georgian Royal Arms carved in high relief. Chamber organ, c1830, in carved mahogany case. C19 octagonal font. Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK6406302112

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Legacy System number:: 190752
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.