Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361433
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361433
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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 PETER, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barrowden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 94493 99906
Details
BARROWDEN SP 99 NW CHURCH LANE (West End)
8/19 Church of St. Peter
10.11.55
GV II*
Church. C13-C15, restored later C19. Ashlar and coursed rubble stone with quoins and leaded, parapetted and Collyweston slate roofs with stone coped gables. W tower with spire, nave, aisles, N chancel chapel, chancel and S porch. Tower of C14, of ashlar, and of 3 stages, with plinth and clasping buttresses with set-offs. W window, a quartrefoil window to each of 3 sides in 2nd stage, slits to SW staircase, sundial on S side of SW buttress, 4 pairs of 2-light bell openings with transom, and quatrefoil frieze over. Spire has small flat broaches, 3 tiers of lucarnes in alternating positions, the top tier small quatrefoils, roll mouldings to the face angles and the summit of a circlet of leaves with iron weathervane. Inside, the nave arch is double chamfered, the inner dying into semi-circular respond. C13 2 bay nave arcades, the S earlier with circular pier and crocket capital. N similar with plain pier and both have double chamfered pointed arches. Hood moulds and C19 label stops overall. N arcade and clerestory said rebuilt at restoration. Latter has 3 Perp windows each side and 3 bay C19 low-pitch tie beam roof, rising from possibly original battlemented stone corbels. Outside a parapetted roof. N aisle has buttresses with set-offs, NW window with C19 Reticulated tracery, blocked N door and possibly C19 triple lancet window. In continuation of aisle into N chancel chapel a similar window and NE window with original Reticulated tracery and niche on S wall below. 2 bay round arched arcade to chancel with double chamfers. Chancel has restored Perp E and 2 S windows and small S door and C19 boarded 4 bay roof incorporating fragments of original Perp roof and 3 carved supporting figures each side. Cusped headed niche and double sedilia with roll mouldings on S wall. Chancel is of ashlar with plinth, buttresses with set-offs and parapetted roof. S aisle has lead roof, S window with Geometric tracery and SW Perp window, small cusped headed piscina and C13 plain octagonal font on 4 short moulded and chamfered piers and central drainage pier. S porch has many moulded round arch though shafts have gone. S doorway has round arch with double chamfer and curved inner edge, with outer shafts remaining. Door, now 2 leaved, C17 or possibly earlier. Small brass wall monument to former rector Rowland Digby d.1546, fine stone wall monument to Roland Durant d.l588, and further monument of 1840. Re-assembled fragments of fine pulpit dated 1605. Right side of rector's chair c1540 carved with inscription 'Rowlandus Digbi, Rector' and 'D.E.' and 'B.A.' either side fleur-de-lys. Otherwise C19 oak choir stalls, pulpit and pews, and brass lectern. Majolica tile reredos by firm of Maw. White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877 and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SP9449399906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186841
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
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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