Former Church of St John the Evangelist
FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST JOHN'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1026696
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST JOHN'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1026696
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST JOHN'S STREET
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST JOHN'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chichester
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86381 04706
Details
In the following item:
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 300074
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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