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Church of St Andrew

A Grade II* Listed Building in Tur Langton, Leicestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.5441 / 52°32'38"N

Longitude: -0.9492 / 0°56'56"W

OS Eastings: 471360

OS Northings: 294542

OS Grid: SP713945

Mapcode National: GBR BRJ.DVW

Mapcode Global: VHDQL.HBK2

Plus Code: 9C4XG3V2+J8

Entry Name: Church of St Andrew

Listing Date: 7 December 1966

Last Amended: 23 January 1986

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1061583

English Heritage Legacy ID: 191126

Also known as: Church of St Andrew, Tur Langton
St Andrew's Church, Tur Langton

ID on this website: 101061583

Location: St Andrew's Church, Tur Langton, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE8

County: Leicestershire

District: Harborough

Civil Parish: Tur Langton

Built-Up Area: Tur Langton

Traditional County: Leicestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire

Church of England Parish: Church Langton with Tur Langton

Church of England Diocese: Leicester

Tagged with: Church building

Description


TUR LANGTON HIGH STREET (South Side) SP79 SW 7/104 7.12.66 Church of St. Andrew G V II* Church. 1865/6. By Joseph Goddard of Leicester. Red brick with stone dressings and dark blue brick string courses. Welsh slate roof with stone coped gables and finials. Decoration both outside and inside in cut brick and dark blue brick. In the Early English style. N W tower and spire, nave, N aisle, chancel and S chancel vestry. Tower of 3 storeys with angle buttresses, N.W. doorway, paired lancets on 2nd stage with small round window over, and 4 shafted triple lancet bell openings. Moulded and cut brick frieze. Broach spire with 1 tier of lucarnes, finial and weathercock. Large W window with lancets and rose window over. Plate tracery and stained glass of 1877. 4 bay N arcade, the arches with cut brick decoration, on circular piers. N clerestory of small quatrefoil windows. 5 3-light S windows with plate tracery. 5 bay roof with curved braces to collars. N aisle has paired lancet windows. Semi-circular chancel apse with lancets filled with stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Wagon roof to chancel, the braces round the apse supported on shafts and stone corbels. S. chancel vestry with lean-to roof. N chancel organ chamber. Pevsner and V.C.H., Vol.V.

Listing NGR: SP7136094542

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