Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1360671
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1360671
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horninghold
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80695 97090
Details
HORNINGHOLD
SP 89 NW
3/73 Church of St. Peter
7.12.66
GV II*
Church. C12-C13, C15 and restored 1844, 1904 and 1936. Coursed rubble stone with stone dressings and ashlar spire, and leaded and Collyweston slate roofs. Stone coped gables. W tower with spire, nave, aisles, chancel and N porch. Late C13 W tower of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses, W doorway, 4 bell openings with Y tracery, and short broach spire. 1 tier of lucarnes with cusped lights and plate tracery. Foliage finial. Triple chamfered nave arch, chamfer continuing to ground. 3 bay N arcade with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Early C13 3 bay S arcade similar but with rounded arches. Perp clerestory with 3 2-light flat-topped windows either side. Perp 3 bay low-pitch tie-beam roof. N aisle has Perp 3-light NE window and 2 2-light flat-topped N windows. N porch with single chamfered archway. Double chamfered chancel arch, the inner on polygonal responds. Chancel has 3-light flat-topped window to N and S and similar 2-light to E. Whitewashed plastered ceiling. S aisle has similar 3-light windows and reset Norman S doorway. Palmette decoration in imposts and, on arch, 3 concentric tiers of chip-carved stars. Hood mould with billet moulding. C13 octagonal font with C18 cover. Some medieval bench ends, a few with poppy-heads. Knight Templar coffin slab, c1260, now on wall near W door. C18 communion rail with turned balusters. Outside on N aisle E wall are mounted 3 C18 slate wall monuments. Pevsner, V.C.H., Vol.V., and White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877.
Listing NGR: SP8069597090
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190976
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964)
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984)
Whites Directory in Leicestershire and Rutland, (1877)
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