Church of St Catharine
CHURCH OF ST CATHARINE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295074
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catharine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHARINE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295074
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catharine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHARINE, 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 ST CATHARINE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Houghton on the Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 67636 03303
Details
HOUGHTON ON THE HILL
SK 60 SE MAIN STREET (South Side) 5/22 29.12.66 Church of St. Catharine GV II*
Church. C14-C15, restored 1861, chancel partly rebuilt 1857, and N porch of 1874. N porch designed by C. Kirk of Sleaford. Ashlar, coursed squared stone and rubble stone with stone dressings and plain tile roofs, part parapetted. Stone coped gables with finials and angle and diagonal buttresses with set-offs. W tower and spire, nave, aisles, chancel and N and S porches. C14 tower of 3 stages with plinth, moulded bands and angle buttresses with set-offs. Small W door, W window with Y tracery, N 1-light with clock face on front, further 1-lights to S.W.stair and 4 2-light bell openings with Curvilinear tracery. Hood mould continues round tower. Above is a head frieze, battlements and recessed spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes and finial with weathercock. Quadruple chamfered nave arch, the inner on polygonal responds. C14 4 bay N arcade with double chamfered arches on quatrefoil piers. C15 4 bay S arcade, hollow and curved chamfered arches, former to ground, latter on shafts. C19 4 bay roof. C14 N aisle but with late Perp windows. 3 3-lights and E 4-light : 3 with c1900 stained glass. Mid C14 sedilia remains in part. C15 roof and battlemented parapet. N door. N porch, dated 1874, with hollow chamfered and moulded doorway on shafted responds. Double chamfered chancel arch. C14 chancel, partly rebuilt 1857. 2 N windows with Y and Reticulated tracery and C19 stained glass and 2 similar S windows. S door. E window with restored Curvilinear tracery forming mouchettes. C19 stained glass. C19 5 bay roof with curved braces to collars. C15 S aisle, the E window with stained glass by Ward and Hughes London, 1891, and 3 S windows by T. Curtis of same firm, 1905. Piscina and double chamfered S doorway. C15 restored roof. C15 s porch, the openwork gable with short wall posts, tie beam, curved braces, and curved struts. Welsh slate roof. C13 round front on 8 short shafts. Marble wall monument to Mrs. A. Bent, died 1677. Cartouche with angel heads, the inscription in place of arms. White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877, and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SK6763603303
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190684
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in Leicestershire and Rutland, (1877)
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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