Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1029601
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1029601
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET
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.
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:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Puttenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 93308 47861
Details
SU 94 NW PUTTENHAM C.P. THE STREET (south side)
8/95 Church of 14.6.67 St.John the Baptist
GV II*
Church. C12 arcade and door, C13 nave and chancel with C14 south transept, C15 tower, vestry rebuilt in 1770; all restored in 1861 by H. Woodyer and 1868 by Charles Kerry. Sandstone rubble with chalk dressing, partly replaced with Bath stone, red brick quoins to tower. Red and blue brick chapel to north on stone plinth with rendered chancel to east. Plain tiled roofs, pyramidal over tower. Nave with north aisle and porch to south, chancel to east with vestry (former Lady Chapel) to north, organ loft to south and tower to west end. Square tower with stair-vice to south east angle, diagonal offset buttresses to west end. 3 stages with tiled plinth and rendered parapet. Double arched, louvred, openings to each face on top stage. Large C19 window to west. Double ribbed doors below on west end. Most windows replaced in C19, 3 triangular stone dormers in north side of nave. 2, arched, leaded casement windows in vestry, windows to south mixed Decorated and Rectilinear with stone tracery. Gabled porch to south with outer glazed doors, inner wood door. Further door to north.
Interior: stone floors, 4 bay nave arcade to north, circa 1160, round pier with square scalloped capitals and and unchamfered arches with crimped plasterwork surrounds. Bases of piers rise from bay to bay towards west. South doorway circa 1170. Round arched with deep moulding and keeling. Chancel arch, circa 1200 with simple imposts and pointed arched surround, chamfered inner order. Two bay chancel with unmoulded arches. C14 cambered tie beams to roof. C20 fittings, part Gothic, part classical by Randoll Blacking in 1936. Octagonal stone font with trefoil panels and inches.
Monuments: some early C19 white stone wall tablets by local mason.
PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp 417-8.
V.C.H. SURREY. VOL III pp 52-8.
Listing NGR: SU9330847861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288159
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 417-418
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 52-58
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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