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Latitude: 52.9063 / 52°54'22"N
Longitude: -0.845 / 0°50'41"W
OS Eastings: 477778
OS Northings: 334938
OS Grid: SK777349
Mapcode National: GBR BM6.WQ0
Mapcode Global: WHFJF.Z6ST
Plus Code: 9C4XW544+G2
Entry Name: Church of St Peter and St Paul
Listing Date: 3 August 1979
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1188593
English Heritage Legacy ID: 190247
ID on this website: 101188593
Location: St Peter and St Pauls Church, Barkestone-le-Vale, Melton, Leicestershire, NG13
County: Leicestershire
District: Melton
Civil Parish: Redmile
Traditional County: Leicestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire
Church of England Parish: Barkestone St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Leicester
Tagged with: Church building
SK 7634-7734 REDMILE JERICHO LANE
(West side)
Barkestone-le-Vale
46/301 Church of St Peter and
St Paul
3.8.79
II*
Parish church. Mainly C14 with C15 alterations. West tower, nave,
chancel, north aisle, and south aisle added and clerestory rebuilt in 1840
by William Parsons. Restored 1857. Ironstone with ashlar dressings and
slate roofs. 3 stage tower with diagonal buttresses. 3-light
Perpendicular west window. String courses between storeys. Slit lights to
ringing chamber and 2-light Perpendicular belfry windows. Crenellated
limestone parapet with angle pinnacles. Plain octagonal spire. North
aisle has 2 3-light Perpendicular windows under 4-centred arches and a
similar east window. South aisle has 3-light Perpendicular windows of cast
iron and an arched doorway. Chancel lit through 2-light arched windows.
Interior. 3 bay arcade standing on compound piers: circular moulded bases
and undercut capitals. South side is of 1840. Triple chamfered tower
arch. Nave roof of tie beams on arched braces dropping on wall posts to
corbels. King strut rises from ties to ridge piece forming triangular
traceried openwork panels. Plain C13 drum font. C14 effigy in nave under
ogeed wall arch with finial. C15 tower screen partly formed of doors from
a chancel screen. Chancel roof as nave, but C19. 4 stall ends in chancel,
with elaborate poppyheads and deeply undercut figures of saints and other
carving: late C15.
Listing NGR: SK7777834938
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