CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1055258
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 56279 00795
Details
KENLEY C.P. KENLEY
SJ 50 SE
4/66 Church of St. John
13.6.58 the Baptist
GV II*
Parish church. C12 and C14, restored c. 1854. Roughly coursed gritstone
rubble, machine tile roofs. Nave and chancel in one, west tower and south
porch. Tower: probably C12; squat in 2 stages with later pyramidal roof;
rectangular chamfered openings to second stage on north, south and west
and plain rectangular openings to bottom stage on south and west. Long
nave and chancel in one; 3 mid-C19 windows with Y-tracery on south and
2 on north, all in slight recesses; north wall also has square-headed
blocked doorway to chancel and an infilled round-arched doorway (probably
C12), cut by western of two C19 windows; small blocked rectangular window
to chancel on south; C14 east window of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil
and mouchettes above; gabled south porch with round-arched doorway probably
C17. Interior: round-arched single-chamfered south doorway has nail-
studded plank and muntin door (probably C17); narrow doorway to tower
is pointed on east with 2 chamfered orders ending in small broaches and
square-headed on west (door with long strap hinges); main feature is late
C14 arch-braced collar beam roof, the 3 eastern trusses (to chancel)
with cusped struts from collars forming quatrefoils, double purlins and
cusped windbraces; the 2 eastern trusses to nave are boxed in (without
struts to collars) and the western truss consists of a tie beam with
raking struts supporting principal rafter; fine carved C17 pulpit has
tester with pendant knobs, reading desk below made up of contemporary
panels; hexagonal font 1875. No monumentsof note. The church is said
to have been a dependent chapelry of Cound (q.v. under Church of St. Peter,
Cound C.P.) in the medieval period and is stituated in an originally
oval-shaped churchyard (q.v. under churchyard wall), suggestive of an
early origin. B.O.E. p.159; D.H.S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire,
Part 6 (1903) pp. 493-4; The Post Office Directory of Shropshire (1879)
(ed. E. R. Kelly) p.336.
Listing NGR: SJ5627900795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS , An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 493-4
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
'Post Office Directory' in Post Office Directory of Shropshire, (1879), 336
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing