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Church of St Mary

A Grade II* Listed Building in Carlton Curlieu, Leicestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.5687 / 52°34'7"N

Longitude: -0.9781 / 0°58'40"W

OS Eastings: 469362

OS Northings: 297257

OS Grid: SP693972

Mapcode National: GBR 9PR.ZH3

Mapcode Global: WHFKX.YPFM

Plus Code: 9C4XH29C+FQ

Entry Name: Church of St Mary

Listing Date: 29 December 1966

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1180137

English Heritage Legacy ID: 191044

ID on this website: 101180137

Location: St Mary's Church, Carlton Curlieu, Harborough, Leicestershire, LE8

County: Leicestershire

District: Harborough

Civil Parish: Carlton Curlieu

Traditional County: Leicestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire

Church of England Parish: Carlton Curlieu and Burton Overy

Church of England Diocese: Leicester

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Description


SP69NE CARLTON CURLIEU

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29.12.66
church of st. mary
GV II

Church. C12 tower, restored and partly rebuilt 1685 (dated), rest 1767, altered and restored 1880-1. Course rubble stone and ashlar with quoins, and red brick with stone dressings. Swithland slate roofs with stone coped gable and finial. W.Tower, navem and chancel under one roof, N. vestry and S porch. Unbuttressed tower of 3 stagesm C12 lower 2 of coursed rubble stone, stage, and 4 2-light bell openings with rounded arches, impost blocks, keystones and ver simple curving tracery. Cornice and parapet with corner pilasters surmounted by orbs, the lower part covered with foliage. Rounded arech to nave with zig-zag in soffit, chevron on archb and roll moulding on angle. Impost moulding and scalloped capitals but shafts missing. Nave and chancel are of red brick with stone plinth, buttresses with set-offs, and cornice. 5 windows to S., 4 to N., of 1880 and of 2 lights with simple Geometric tracery. C19 5 bay roof, crown posts and struts from collars. N. vestry , rebuilt 1880. C19 E. window with intersected tracery and stained glass. C19 S. porch wooden open work on stone plinth. N. Windon of vestry has fragments of medieval stained glass. Below is a monument of Sir John Bale, died 1621 and wife. Alabaster and marble with 2 recumbant effigies on a table tomb, the wife behind and higher. The aedicule behind has a central cartouche carved with coat of arms as cresting, and below, on the back platem the couple's children caved in high relief. Strapwork, sheilds and inscriptions round the base of tomb. Georgian Royal Arms painted on canvas. On d N face of tower parapet is inscribed "in the year MDCLXXXV the church and steeple was repaired by Geffrey Palmer Esq, son and heir of \Sir Lewis Palmer of \Carlton near Cottingham inthe Country of Northampton, Barronett." Coat of arms in the centre. To Henry Dormer is attributed the work on the tower. V.C.H. Vol. V, Colvin and Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SP6936297257

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