Church of St Botolph
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHURCH SIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1236177
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Botolph
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHURCH SIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1236177
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Botolph
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, CHURCH SIDE
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 BOTOLPH, CHURCH SIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Charnwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shepshed
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 48104 19693
Details
SK 4819
9/103
18.1.50
CHURCH SIDE
(north side)
Church of St Botolph
(formerly listed under Queen Street)
I
Parish Church, C13 west tower and spire. C15 nave, with clerestory and aisles, and
chancel, C19 north porch and south vestry, 1935. South transept with vestry by
Albert Herbert. C19 and C20 restorations. Of Charnwood granite rubble with ashlar
dressings and Swithland slate roofs. Perpendicular tracery to nave and chancel.
Three stage west tower lit by lancets, with angles clasped by buttresses. Two-light
bell chamber openings. Broach spire has 2-light lucernes with Y-tracery. Three-bay
nave has cruciform piers on tall bases. Roof dated 1636 and 1652 and renovated
1912. North aisle roof replaced 1952. Pointed chancel arch wth 2 continuously
chamfered orders. Chancel roof 1880. Medieval benches with heads and poppy heads
on the ends. C14 font. Pinscina in south aisle. Pulpit by R Norman Shaw (Andrew
Saint, Richard Norman Shaw, p 298). Chancel has piscina, C18 communion rail and a
series of very fine monuments to the Phillipps family of Garendon. (N Pevsner,
Leicestershire & Rutland, p 227; Harold Hack, Shepshed Parish Church). Many finely
carved Swithland slate headstones in the churchyard.
Listing NGR: SK4810419693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427112
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1982), 298
Mack, H, Shepshed Parish Church, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960), 227
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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