British Listed Buildings

Listing Text

SP 8699-8799 UPPINGHAM LONDON ROAD
4/77 (east side)

10.11.55 Church of St Peter and
St Paul
GV
II*


Parish church. C14, enlarged and heavily restored 1861 by Henry Parsons of London.
Squared stone and ashlar with Welsh slate roof to chancel and low-pitched lead roofs
to nave and aisles, scarcely visible behind battlemented parapet. Tower and spire,
nave and aisles, north porch of stone and south porch of wooden trellis-work, chancel
and chancel chapels. Tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses, moulded string courses
and 2-light bell-openings. West doorway with continuous mouldings and
fleuron decoration in square surround. Spire with 3 tiers of traceried and gabled
lucarnes. Nave of 4 bays (lengthened by one bay in 1861), arcade of double-chamfered
arches (retaining some original painting of tendrils) carried on clusters of 4 shafts
to north with polygonal abaci and to south with quatrefoil abaci. Window tracery,
Decorated to north and Perpendicular to south, wholly renewed. C19 roof. Two-bay
chancel entirely of 1861, Decorated in style, divided from chapels by arcade on black
marble columns with naturalistic capitals. C16 pulpit. Font of 1853 designed by
G E Street for All Saints, Cottesbrooke, Northants. Four small Norman demi-figures,
representing Christ blessing, a saint blessing and 2 angels, discovered during work in
the C19 and now placed either side of the south door and the east window of the North
chapel.


Listing NGR: SP8667299606

Source: English Heritage

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