Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SHOP LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1058818
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SHOP LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1058818
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SHOP LANE
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, SHOP LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pilton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58854 40816
Details
ST54SE PILTON CP SHOP LANE (West side)
15/152 Church of St John the Baptist
2.6.61 GV I
Anglican Parish Church. C11, C12, C13, C14 and C15; restored c1870. Coursed and squared lias, freestone dressings and detailing, low pitched lead roofs. Nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower, south porch; predominantly Perpendicular, with other earlier features. West tower, embattled and buttressed, 2-stages with pinnacles, stair turret with a spirelet, 2-light bell chamber windows with a quatrefoil interlace; west door, 4-light west window, sundial, prominent gargoyles. Five bay buttressed nave with 3-light windows; clerestory stage with 3-light windows, to each end and between each window a shafted pinnacle with the carved figure of an animal, buttressed south porch with an ashlar frontage, pinnacles; Norman south doorway with chevron decoration. Two bay chancel, 3-light windows, three 3-light windows to the clerestory stage again shafted pinnacles, pierced parapet, figures of grotesque animals, buttresses; 5-light east window, below it a large C18 monument. North aisle with buttresses, arcaded parapet with pinnacles, large gargoyles, 2 and 3-light windows; Early English doorway with roll-mouldings. Interior on flag floors, encaustic tiles to chancel, plaster walls. Five bay north aisle arcade of c1150, octagonal piers with scallop capitals; Perpendicular chancel arch of 1410-90. Particularly fine roofs; those to nave and north aisle with tie-beams, cusped struts, corbels and bosses carved as angels; panelled roof to chancel with bosses and corbels carved as angels; further fine roof to the porch. Elaborate piscina to chancel with a foiled head; sedilia with an arcade of blank quatrefoils, squint. Further piscina in north aisle chapel; also a corbel carved as an angel; Easter Sepulchre in a recess, arch over with ball-flower decoration; carved oak C15 screen, arcade of vine leaves and grapes, remains of some colouring; upper entrance to rood loft. Octagonal C13 lead-lined font, a semi-circular headed niche to each face of the bowl. Late C19 stone pulpit. Jacobean altar rail with turned and twisted balusters, also contemporary 2 chairs and a chest. Six C18 wall monuments, the most notable to Maria Huntley of 1728 in the chancel, some C18 memorials set in the floor; 16 principal C19 wall monuments, some executed in brass. C19 pews and organ, C19 strong-box, C19 painted plaque under tower setting out the lands belonging to the Church. Branch of 1749:- R Rice Bristol Fecit. Some medieval glass to north-east and south-east chancel windows, also east window of aisle; remainder of glass C19 and early C20. Cope, (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958.
Listing NGR: ST5883840808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267626
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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