FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
List entry Number: 1026696
Location
FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST JOHN'S STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: West Sussex
District: Chichester
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Chichester
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 05-Jul-1950
Date of most recent amendment: 29-Jan-1982
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 300074
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Details
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1. ST J0HNS STREET
972 (East Side)
Former Church of St John the
Evangelist
SU 8604 NW 4/191 5.7.50
GV
B
The name should be amended to read: Former Church of St John the Evangelist
The grade should be amended from B to read: I
The description should be amended to read:.
1812-3, by James Elmes (1782-1862) of Oving, Sussex. Very remarkable survival from
pre-Ecclesiologcal and pre-0xford Movement days. White brick partly rendered slate
roof. Elongated octagon in plan. Pedimented W front with door in stone surrond
of pilasters and entablature and, above that, an arched window set it a atone eared
and moulded surround and with a blind balustrade beneath. The angles left and right
each with a porch into the staircases up to the galleries. As the cupola, a miniature
version of the Anoragic monument in Athens. To the sides, arched windows. At the
rear,, the vestry. Interior with galleries on slender Egyptianate iron columns forming
a rectangle within the octagonal grace. In front of the altar, which is a modern-table,
towers a 3-decker pulpit, its.readers' desks square and one higher than the other, the
pulpit proper circular and carried on a spirally fluted stem. Above and behind that, on
the gallery, the organ.
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ST JOHN'S STREET
1.
972
(East Side)
Church of St John the
Evangelist
SU 8604 NW 4/191 5.7.50.
II GV
2.
1812-13. James Elmes, architect. White brick. Octagonal building
with wider facets on north and south sides. West end with pediment and
cupola. Round-headed windows. In north-west and south-west facets,
splayed single-storeyed porches. Galeries inside.
Nos 4 to 6 (consec) and Church of St John form a group.
Listing NGR: SU8636904705
Selected Sources
National Grid Reference: SU 86381 04706
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