Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361524
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05617/26
- Rights:
- © C Culligan. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361524
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, 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 ALL SAINTS, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Casterton
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 01805 09909
Details
TF 0009-0109 LITTLE CASTERTON MAIN STREET
11/113 (north side)
6.6. 61 CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
GV
II*
Church, exterior appearance mainly C13, but with earlier origin. "Repaired" 1844
of coursed rubble, with lead roofs to nave and south aisle, and Collyweston stone
slate roofs to north aisle and chancel, the latter steeply pitched. Two-bay nave
with aisles and C15 clerestory, chancel, gabled south porch dated 1837 on buttress,
early C13 round headed north doorway, twin west bellcote. Lancet windows with
moulded stringcourse beneath. Interior: 2-bay round-arched nave arcade carried on
cylindrical piers - north side pre-1200, with waterleaf capitals, square abaci and
roll-mouldings to the arches, south side early C13 with circular abaci and double
chamfered arches. C15 nave roof with carved angel figures and bosses. Late C13
tomb recess in south aisle, with 2 coffin lids carved with foliated crosses. South
aisle also has piscina. Norman tympanum carved with Tree of Life displayed in north
aisle. C13 wall painting of Ecclesia and Synagogua in jambs of west lancet, and
some more fragmentary remains of painting also in south aisle. Barrel-vaulted
chancel has very fine arched piscina flanked by tiny shafts with crocketted gable
above, supported by head-stops. Foliage carving in spandrel. Drain in floor below
in form of 4-petalled flower, apparently from the destroyed church at Pickworth.
Brass to Thomas Burton of Tolethorpe d.1381 and wife. N Pevsner, Leicestershire and
Rutland, pp 305-6.
Listing NGR: TF0180509909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 187201
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960), 305-6
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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