Church of St John
Church of St John, Hollington
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037965
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St John, Hollington
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- 2002-09-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/07275/28
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037965
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St John, Hollington
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, Hollington
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Checkley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 05938 38819
Details
SK 03 NE
10/122
CHECKLEY CP
HOLLINGTON
Church of St John
GV
II
Chapel of ease 1859-61 by G.E Street. Rough faced random coursed Hollington sandstone; steeply pitched tiled roofs with crested ridge, verge parapets and bellcote to west end. Nave with north porch and apse.
Nave: low walls with diagonal buttresses at angles and string at cill level; a large three-stage buttress runs axially up the west face to the bellcote; approximately three bays with trefoil-headed lancets to east and quatrefoil to west of north porch: this has very low eaves (lower west than east) taken down to cill level; pointed arch entrance. Apse: of similar ridge, but greater eaves height than nave; two-light, plate tracery trefoil-headed (with quatrefoil over) side windows; similar but three-light east window with gablet over, run into the curve of the apse.
Listing NGR: SK0593838819
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 274926
- 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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