Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, LONGHIRST VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042127
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, LONGHIRST VILLAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042127
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, LONGHIRST VILLAGE
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 EVANGELIST, LONGHIRST VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Longhirst
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22540 88873
Details
LONGHIRST LONGHIRST VILLAGE NZ 2288 (East side) 11/36 Church of St. John the Evangelist 20.10.69 GV II
Parish Church, 1876, by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; red tile roof. Nave with south aisle and north-west tower/porch, chancel with south organ chamber and north vestry. Free C13 style with Geometric tracery. High chamfered plinth, stepped buttresses,clasping buttresses to tower and eastern arms, moulded sill string, hollow-chamfered eaves cornice, foliage stops to hoodmoulds.
Tower has double doors in triple-chamfered arch, lancet over. Chamfered, set-back belfry stage. Heavy eaves corbel table and broach spire rock-faced up to a moulded string, upper part with 4 lucarnes; stair turret on west. 3-bay north wall of nave has two 2-light windows and lancet. West end: tall 2-light window flanked by lancets, and set back to right west aisle lancet. String course over head of central window. South wall has low eaves, two 2-light windows in half dormers. Chancel arms have 2-light windows with pierced circles above, Y-tracery windows on single lancets. Stepped triplet in east end. Both gable ends coped with crosses.
Interior plastered,with ashlar features. 4-bay south arcade with clustered columns alternately of marble. Tall double-chamfered chancel arch on colonnettes over stone corbels. Aumbry on north and sedilia on south chancel wall. East lancets have black marble jamb shafts and hoodmould with leafy carved stops. Arch-braced timber roofs, the chancel panelled; aisle dormer roofs with hip rafters and collars. Chancel screen carved by the Rev. Proctor (vicar 1885-1916) and his parishioners; screens to vestry and organ chamber. Carved stone reredos in panelled east wall. Original tiled floors, elaborately patterned in sanctuary. Well-carved bench seating in nave and choir, the latter with poppy-head bench ends.
Listing NGR: NZ2254088873
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238180
- 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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