Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1074234
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1074234
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Martin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH 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 MARTIN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Mallory, Peckleton & Stapleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 43471 98451
Details
SP 49 NW PECKLETON CHURCH LANE (north side) 10/61 Stapleton
7.11.66 Church of St. Martin
GV II*
Church. Early C14; spire rebuilt (1904-5) and present windows inserted (1906) by W.T. Grewcock of Leicester. Random rubble with freestone dressings and slate roof. West tower and 3-bay nave and chancel in one. 2 stage west tower with belfry offset and diagonal buttresses diminishing with height and dying into the belfry stage. Segmental pointed west doorway with hood-mould. 2-light belfry windows containing Y-tracery with trefoil cusping to the heads of the lights, and hood moulds. Plain parapet, and small recessed spire. Nave and chancel: Pointed 2-light side windows with reticulated or Y-tracery; 3-light east window with decorated tracery. At the west end of the south side a smaller, C14 window survives, it has a segmental pointed head and Y-tracery; also on this side is the fragment of a square-headed window with reticulated tracery. At the west end of the nave, north of the tower, a small lancet survives. Blocked north and south doorways, the arches of both having been destroyed by windows of 1906. Interior: C14 doorway between nave and tower; 2-centred arch and double chamfered surround. No structural division between nave and chancel. C19 king-post roof. Fixtures and fittings: West gallery with vestry beneath, and box pews, all of 1808. Small stone font on an octagonal pedestal. C20 wooden pulpit with panelled sides and naturalistic foliage. Simple wooden altar rail with open arcade. Large Gothic style organ, C19. B.O.E. p. 389
Listing NGR: SP4347198451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188191
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 389
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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