Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1075015
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1075015
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Scalford
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 78219 24610
Details
SCALFORD CHADWELL SK 782 Church of St Mary 25/370 1.1.68 II*
Parish church. C12 and C13. Repaired C17. Restored 1865-6 by R W Johnson. Coursed squared ironstone with limestone dressings. Swithland slate roof to chancel, nave and porch, copper roof to aisle and Welsh slate roof to tower. Chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch and W tower. 1-bay chancel has two lancet windows to E end with hood moulds; that to left with carved head to top of arch. Paired lancet to S with hood mould and carved head to spandrel. Blocked priests' door to S-W with Caernarvon-arched head. Limestone quoins and stone-coped E gable. Nave has C19 paired Caernarvon-arched windows in blocked arches of former N arcade. S aisle has C19 paired lancet windows to S with hood moulds; small blocked 2-light stone mullion window to W end at high level. C13 S doorway with chamfer and C19 hood mould and label stops. Porch has doorway with continuous chamfer outermost, chamfered arch innermost on polygonal responds. Narrow rectangular 1-light windows to E and W with chamfered stone surrounds. Small 3-stage tower has lancet window to bottom stage W with hood mould, small rectangular window to middle stage S with splayed limestone jambs and ironstone lintel, and twin bell-chamber openings with octagonal central shaft and hood mould. Interior: Chancel has small piscina and aumbry with central square shaft with moulded base and capital, chamfered jambs and lintels and spherical triangular drain to piscina. Nave has 3-bay arcades. N arcade is Norman and blocked. Circular piers with square abaci, that to N-W with zigzag ornament, roll-moulding to N-E pier and imposts to responds; plain round-headed arches. C13 S arcade has octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals with nailhead ornament, polygonal responds and double-chamfered arches. Tower arch has semi-circular responds with moulded bases and capitals and double-chamfered round arch. W window of truer is round-headed inside and has deep splay. Norman font has circular, tub-shaped bowl with intersecting, beaded, round- headed arches to liner part of bail, rather crudely executed.
Buildings of England Leics and Rutland, 1984, p.129.
Listing NGR: SK7821924610
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 190257
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 129
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