Description

CLAWSON, HOSE AND BURDEN LANE HARBY North Side, HARBY SK 7431-7531 Church of St Mary the 41/18 Virgin 1.1.68

GV II*

Church. C13-late C15, restored 1874. Vestry added 1903. Coursed squared ironstone with limestone dressings and lead roofs. Chancel, vestry, aisled nave, S porch and W tower. 2-bay chancel has 3-light E window with flowing tracery, hood mould and label stops, 2-light windows to N with ogee-arched heads to lights and 3-light window to S with cinquefoiled ogee-arched heads to lights, 4-centred heads, all with hood moulds. Vestry continues S aisle and overlaps 1 bay of chancel and has 2-light E window, datestone to left of window and door to S. Nave has 4-window clerestory of 2-light windows with cinquefoiled heads to lights, 4-centred heads to hood moulds. N aisle has 3-light windows to E & W ends with round trefoil-headed lights, 4-centred head and hood moulds. 2-light window to NE with cinquefoil-headed lights, 4-centred head and 3-light window to NW with cinquefoiled heads to outer lights and cusped ogee -arched head to central light and basket-arched head, both with hood moulds and label steps. Many-moulded N door with hood mould and label stops. S aisle has 2-light window to SE with cusped ogee-arched heads to lights, and 3-light window to SW with cinquefoiled ogee-arched heads to lights, both with segmental-arched heads, hood moulds and label stops. 2-light W window with Perpendicular tracery, 4-centred head and hood mould with label stops. Many-moulded S door with hood mould and label stops, that to left a re-used shaft capital with interwining leaf decoration. S porch has double hollow-chamfered doorway with hood mould, crocketed pinnacles to angles and 1-light window to E & W with pointed trefoil head. 3-stage truer has 2-light window to bottom stage W with cinquefoiled ogee-arched heads to lights and quatrefoil to head, hood mould and label stops. Niche to middle stage above with chamfer and hood mould. 2-light bell-chamber openings with tracery similar to that of W window and hood moulds. Battlemented parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles. Base of parapet has frieze with ball flower ornament, heads and animals. Diagonal offset buttresses. Plain stone-coped parapets to body of church. Interior: Chancel has chamfered piscina. 3-light window to SW, now internal, with cinquefoiled heads to lights, 4-centred head and hood would. C19 arch- braced collar truss roof on stone foliage corbels. Chancel arch has polygonal responds with nailhead to capitals and double-chamfered arch. Nave has 3-bay arcades with quatrefoil piers with semi-octagonal shafts, polygonal responds, high moulded bases to clear pews, moulded capitals and double-chamfered arches. Grotesque head corbels to C19 roof. S aisle has chamfered ogee-arched piscina. Double-chamfered tower arch with polygonal responds, that to left with inscription recording benefaction. Octagonal font with 2-light blank tracery patterns to bowl and a date of 1606 carved later to stem. C18 Commandment boards; oil on board. Royal Arms of George II, oil on board, above chancel arch. Semi-circular panel above with painted "inscription" FEAR GOD/HONOUM the KING. Buildings of England Leicester 1984 p. 174

Listing NGR: SK7472731296

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