Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361819
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1361819
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, 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 NICHOLAS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stretton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 94973 15769
Details
STRETTON
SK 91 NW CHURCH LANE (West side)
3/121 Church of St. Nicholas
14.6.54
GV II*
Church of C12 - C14, and C17, C19. Coursed rubble stone and ashlar with Collyweston slate roof and red ridge tiles. Nave with W bellcote, N aisle, N and S transepts, chancel and S porch. W stepped buttress with a C19 lancet either side and C13 double bellcote. Openings have triple- chamfered arches dying into uprights. Spirelet above. Nave has fine C13 2 bay arcade. Moulded round arches (roll with fillet and hollow chamfers) supported on cruciform piers with free-standing shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. C19 common rafter roof with 2 tie beams. N aisle has C13 W lancet and C19 flat-topped N window with c1880 stained glass. N transept is Perp with 3-light N window and 2-light NE window. Near last a corbel bracket with niche below. Double chamfered chancel arch, the inner a hollow chamfer, dying into polygonal capitals with nail-head decoration and head corbels beneath. C13 chancel with C19 boarded polygonal roof. N lancet with stained glass of 1876. Restored Perp E window with stained glass of 1882. A corbel bracket either side. S flat-topped window and S lancet with stained glass of c1875. Early C14 simple Sedilia and double Piscina. C17 S transept with S 4-light stone mullion window and SE small lancet. C13 S porch with simple Norman S doorway. C13 font; C18 wall monuments in chancel and S transept; C19 carved oak pulpit, choir stalls and lectern; and C17 altar rail. Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SK9497315769
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186691
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
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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