Church of St Botolph
CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1278781
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1278781
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1966
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, MAIN STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Charnwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ratcliffe on the Wreake
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 63046 14534
Details
RATCLIFFE ON THE WREAKE
SK 61 SW MAIN STREET (East Side) 7/92 1.6.66 Church of St. Botolph
GV II*
Church. C14, spire rebuilt 1812 and church restored 1876. Granite rubble stone with stone dressings, ashlar spire, and Swithland slate roofs. Stone coped gables. W tower, nave, chancel and S porch. W tower of two stages with short diagonal buttresses, W window with C19 stained glass, N door, clock face to N, 3 2-light bell openings, gargoyles, battlements and tall crocketted needle spire with two tiers of lucarnes. Nave has stepped buttresses. Inside, triple chamfered nave arch on polygonal responds, four bay N arcade on octagonal piers, blocked when N aisle demolished c1800. Three N windows, two with Y tracery and one with Intersected tracery. N door. Three S windows with Geometric tracery. C19 four bay roof with curved braces and wall pieces on stone corbels. Double chamfered chancel arch on polygonal responds. Early C14 chancel with two N windows with Geometric tracery, E window with Reticulated tracery and stained glass of 1878 and three S windows with Geometric or Curvilinear tracery. The middle of these has fragments of medieval galss including grisaille quarries. N door. N tomb recess with double chamfered arch and effigy of priest, c1300, the head under a crocketted gable. Piscina and triple sedilia. C19 three bay roof similar to nave. C12/C13 round font on probably C19 octagonal base. S porch rebuilt 1967. Kelly's Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1881, and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SK6304614534
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 404864
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Kellys Directory in Leicestershire Rutland Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, (1881)
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