Church of St. John
Church of St John, Kingstone
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038370
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. John
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St John, Kingstone
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038370
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. John
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St John, Kingstone
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, Kingstone
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 06047 29485
Details
SK 02 NE
10/122
10/122
KINGSTONE
Church of St. John
12/1/66
GV
II
Parish Church. 1860-61. By David Brandon; south aisle by G.E Street. Rock faced stone with ashlar dressings; clay tile roof with coped verges. Five bay nave with north porch, two bay chancel with canted east end, north east tower with angle buttresses, south east vestry.
Nave: bay divisions marked by buttresses; windows of two cusped pointed lights and central colonette mullion with naturalistic foliated capital, under plate traceried quatrefoil and pointed hood mould terminating in naturalistic foliage; west window has two trefoil-headed lights and central colonette mullion supporting Y-tracery incorporating cusped circles, roll and fillet moulded hood terminating in heads of a King and Queen; quatrefoiled light to gable above gabled timber framed porch to pointed door with roll and fillet moulded hood.
South aisle: bay divisions marked by buttresses; single or paired lancet windows. South east vestry: segmental pointed door to west, Caernarvon arch window to east. Chancel: buttress to each angle; pointed windows of two cusped pointed lights with sexfoil over. North east tower: three stages, lower stage has windows of two cusped pointed lights with plate traceried trefoil over, second stage has simple straight headed loops, belfry stage has two cusped lancets to each side.
Interior: nave arcade of slim cylindrical columns with moulded bases and capitals and double chamfered pointed arches; pointed chancel arch has three orders of roll and fillet moulding and stiff leaf capitals to cylindrical columns; pointed and chamfered tower arch; nave roof with arch-braced scissor trusses, the braces springing from stone corbels carved with naturalistic foliage; aisle roof has arch springing from corbels to support a single purlin; scissor braced chancel roof, the canted end has roll and fillet moulded braces springing from foliated corbels.
Fittings: stone font with quadrilobe shaft and base to octagonal bowl having serrated edges to circular panels containing foliage; octagonal stone pulpit has trefoil arched side panels; altar rail of twisted wrought iron standards with scrolled brackets and attached leaf decoration to wooden rail; oak chest dated 1608.
Listing NGR: SK0604729485
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 273829
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 163
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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