Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1986. Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- muted-pier-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth MP: Dr Luke Evans (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Main Street, Carlton
- OS grid reference
- SK 396 049
- Coordinates
- 52.64119, -1.41547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building located on Main Street in Carlton. It was rebuilt in 1764 and later Gothicized in 1867 by H. Goddard & Son. The church is constructed of brick with limestone dressings, including a plinth that may be a remnant of a medieval structure. It features Swithland slate roofs with decorative cresting. The layout includes a west tower, nave, and chancel. The west tower, built entirely in 1867, has clasping buttresses, a western lancet window with a quatrefoil above, and tripartite arcading in the bell chamber, where the outer lower arches are blind. The saddleback roof is covered with Welsh slate and has ridge cresting, and there is a door in the north wall of the tower.
The south arcade of the church has paired trefoiled lights with hoodmoulds, and there is a gabled vestry to the south of the chancel, which features an east window with three lights and roundels. A narrow lancet window is present in the north wall of the chancel. The interior is plain, with a tower arch that has a stilted outer chamfer and hoodmould, a detail that is also reflected in the chancel arch. The nave has an elaborate roof of kingpost construction with ornate tracery filling the spandrels and inscriptions on the west and east tie beams. The chancel roof features scissor-braced common rafters.
Furnishings from the 1867 restoration include pews, a stone pulpit, and a font. The chancel has encaustic floor tiles and altar rails with cusped tracery. Notable stained glass includes a north window by Theodora Salisbury from 1920, which serves as a war memorial depicting Saints Gabriel and Michael, and two saints in the lancets of the chancel's north wall, designed in a medieval style in 1909. The east window contains simple emblems and flower quarries.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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