Description

PARISH OF CALKE CALKE PARK SK 32 SE 4/20 19-1-67 Church of St Giles II GV Private chapel. Rebuilt in 1826-8. Sandstone ashlar, roof hidden behind parapets. Chamfered plinth and moulded band at the base of the parapet. West tower, undivided nave and chancel. Tower and nave have diagonal buttresses and tall battlemented parapets, with three cross finials on the east gable. The undivided west tower has to north and south a deeply set broad low lancet with gothick glazing bars. Larger 2-light window above also deeply set and with tracery as in the nave. The west elevation has a pointed doorway with hollow moulding and panelled double doors with gothic tracery. 2-light louvred opening above with Y-tracery. Nave and chancel of three bays with to north and south three 2-light windows with cast iron reticulated tracery and geometric glazing bars, made by a Derby firm. Set in deep double chamfered surrounds. 3-light east window with reticulated tracery. All the windows have moulded hoodmoulds. The east window is flanked by four-centred arched sunk panels with inscribed slabs set in. Interior: West gallery with gothic panelled front. Four-centred arch above to organ loft with hoodmould on headstops. The organ set in has a gothic case with castellated top. Four-centred arched plaster ceiling divided by slender moulded beams into squares with floriat bosses. Coved cornice. Simple open-backed gothic pews and squire's box pew with gothic panelled sides, linked to a two-decker reading desk. Octagonal wooden pulpit with two tiers of thinly gothic panels. Jacobean Style dado to east wall. Spindly cast metal gothic communion rails around three sides. Stained glass in the east window c1844, pictoral and with bright colours, very characteristic of the period. Monument: On the north side in a segmental arched recess behind iron railings by Robert Bakewell (though probably altered). To Sir John Harpur +1741, by Sir Henry Cheere. Sarcophagus flanked by busts with cherubs below and the usual pyramid above. Excellent quality. On the south side a large carved tablet to Sir John Harpur Crewe, Ninth Baraonet +1886. Font with tapering circular bowl on a base of clustered shafts. Lozenge pattern stone flagged floor with circular brass grills, one inscribed Harrison Derby 1828. Three lozenge hatchments. The interior is a well preserved example of a late Georgian interior and is more characteristic of the time than the exterior which looks forward to the more serious C19 gothic revival.

Listing NGR: SK3692422344

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