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The Orton Trust Workshop

A Grade II* Listed Building in Orton, North Northamptonshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4068 / 52°24'24"N

Longitude: -0.8171 / 0°49'1"W

OS Eastings: 480566

OS Northings: 279417

OS Grid: SP805794

Mapcode National: GBR CVR.471

Mapcode Global: VHDR7.SRDS

Plus Code: 9C4XC54M+P5

Entry Name: The Orton Trust Workshop

Listing Date: 25 October 1951

Last Amended: 31 January 1991

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1213823

English Heritage Legacy ID: 398473

ID on this website: 101213823

Location: Orton, North Northamptonshire, NN14

County: North Northamptonshire

Civil Parish: Orton

Traditional County: Northamptonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire

Church of England Parish: Rothwell with Orton Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: Peterborough

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Description


ORTON MAIN STREET
SP 87 NW
(north west side)
5/51
The Orton Trust Workshop
25.10.51
(formerly listed as Church
of All Saints)
II*
Church, now stonemasonry centre. C13/14 with earlier origins, restored 1868-87
and 1906. Coursed rubblestone with some dressings and stone slate and parapeted
roof, with stone-coped gables. Choir, nave, south aisle and west tower. Choir
has 2-light east window with Y tracery and hood mould with block stops. Blank
north wall and 2-light window to south with perpendicular tracery and flat-
arched head with hood mould. North wall of nave has two 2-light windows with Y
tracery and hood moulds with carved stops. Similar windows to south aisle with
narrow south-east lancet. Clerestory has two 2-light windows with perpendicular
tracery and flat-arched heads with hood moulds. South porch has chamfered arch
dying into carved corbels, and many-moulded doorway within, with hood mould
which has head stops. C19 plank door. C13 and C14 3-stage west tower has small
narrow lancets to 1st stage, blank walling to 2nd stage and four 2-light bell-
chamber openings with geometrical tracery and hood moulds with carved stops.
String course, crenellated parapet and 4 small pinnacles. Interior has been
cleared of fittings for present use and some partition walls erected but has
chancel arch with round-arched head, 3-bay south arcade with double-chamfered
arches on octagonal piers and unchamfered pointed nave arch. Font with 4 pro-
jecting human and animal heads. Stained glass to east, north nave and south
choir windows.


Listing NGR: SP8056679417

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