CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF ST MARY, CHURCH WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1361297
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF ST MARY, CHURCH WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1361297
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION OF ST MARY, CHURCH WALK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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 THE ASSUMPTION OF ST MARY, CHURCH WALK

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County:: Leicestershire
District:: Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 42713 93823

Details

SP 4293 NE TOWN OF HINCKLEY CHURCH WALK (south side)

16/43 Shown on O.S. map as Church Street Church of the Assumption 8.3.63 of St Mary (formerly listed under Barwell)

GV II*

Parish church. Early C14 with late Cl5-early C16 clerestory; spire rebuilt in 1788 by John Cheshire; the aisles were widened and transepts added in 1875-6 (south) and 1877-8 (north) by William Smith; the chancel was restored in 1863 by William Gillet of Leicester and in 1877-8 by Ewan Christian. Coursed freestone blocks; rock faced ashlar characterises Smith's work; roofs of low pitch. West tower, 5-bay nave, with aisles and transeptal chapels, 2-bay chancel with western chapels. Early C14 West Tower; 2 stages with angle buttresses, belfry offset and crenellated parapet on a hollow-moulded string containing carved fleurons. The corners of the parapet are capped by panelled and crocketed pinnacles. At the south-east corner the tower is thickened to accommodate a staircase lit by ogee-headed loops. 2-centred west doorway and above, a 4-light window, also 2-centred, with cusped intersecting tracery and scroll-moulded head with block-stops. Tall, 2-light transomed belfry openings with cinquefoil-headed lights and a single reticulation beneath the 2-centred arch; concave half round-moulded surround. Octagonal steeple with roll-moulded angles and 3 tiers of lucarnes. Nave and aisles: The aisles have buttresses at the bay divisions, plain parapets with moulded strings and coping and pointed 2-light windows with decorated tracery. Late C15/early C16 clerestory windows, each with 3 cinquefoil-headed lights beneath a four-centred arch; hollow chamfered parapet string and crenellated parapet. Double gabled transepts with a 3-light window beneath each gable and a central buttress. Chancel: Pointed side windows of 3 cinquefoil-headed lights with panel tracery; 5-light sub-arcuated east window with panel tracery and hood mould ending in grotesque heads. The chancel chapel windows are in the same style as those of the aisles and transepts. Interior: C14 five-bay arcades with double chamfered pointed arches, the outer chamfers terminating in carved heads, those on the south side probably C19, those on the north side, medieval; octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. High 4-centred tower arch with chamfered surround. High 2-centred chancel arch with double chamfered surround. At the east end of each aisle 2 pointed arches give access to the transeptal chapels and one to the chancel chapel. C15/C16 nave roof with brattished tie beams, each with a carved corbel on the soffit. The tie beams are arch-braced, the braces springing from large wooden corbels carved as angels bearing shields; panel tracery within the narrow space between tie beams and roof; one pair of purlins and a ridge piece, all moulded. The steeply pitched C14 roof line is visible on the west wall. C19 lean-to roofs in a contemporary style to the nave roof. C15/C16 chancel roof, restored, in a similar style to the nave roof except that the brackets spring from wooden shafts which stand on corbels.

Fixtures and fittings: C19 west gallery within the tower; a 4-centred arch with panelled and carved spandrels supports a Gothic-style gallery rail. C19 commandment boards to each side of the tower arch. C19 stone font with clustered column base and cylindrical basin. Parish chest inscribed "HINCKLEY TOWNE CHEST / AND / 1613 / NOVE / 4"; it has curved feet and scrolled brackets. C19 rood loft in a late Gothic style; pendants alternate with traceried arches; open work gallery rail surmounted by a crucifix and the flanking figures of Mary Mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. A pointed doorway in the south-east corner of the nave opens to the stair leading up to the loft. Adjacent to this door is a C19 octagonal pulpit with marble corner shafts and traceried sides. Good quality C19 choir stalls, C19 altar rail and C19 reredos in a medieval style; traceried ogee headed niches containing carvings of Christ (centre) and the Apostles. Piscina with 4-centred arch and chamfered surround, and drop sill sedilia beneath the south window with cinquefoil-headed panels on the back wall. Monuments: brass of c.1490 to a civilian and one of his wives. John Oneby, died 1622; within an aedicule with Corinthian columns are the upper halves of a man and woman; their children are depicted beneath. Stained glass: East window of 1863 by Chance to a design by Sebastian Edwards; north-east window of the north transept by Kempe, 1877. B.O.E. pp. 176-7.

Listing NGR: SP4271393823

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Legacy System number:: 188172
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 176-7

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.