Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059262
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059262
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET
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, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Moulsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 59158 84138
Details
MOULSFORD THE STREET SU58SE (East side) 5/123 Church of St. John the Baptist 20/06/72 (Formerly listed as St. John the Baptist's Church) - II Church. c.1846 on old foundations. By Sir George Gilbert Scott. Flint and stone base with stone dressings; flint and stone with stone dressings; old plain-tile roof; wood bell tower with splay-footed shingled roof to left. Early English style. 3-bay nave, north aisle, and chancel ,with west tower. Central open timber framed porch to 2-centred arched doorway with hood mould. Plank door with wrought iron hinges. Paired lancet to left. Paired trefoil-tapped lancet to right of centre. Trefoil-topped lancet to right. 3-light east window with Reticulated tracery. Single lancet to centre of north aisle. Paired lancet to left and right. Paired lancet to right return of aisle. Paired trefoil-topped lancet to right of nave. Single lancet to east end. Interior: arch-braced roof to nave; barrel-vault roof to chancel. C19 stained glass to chancel. Piscina to right of chancel. Richly carved pulpit, lecturn and choir stalls. Wooden arcaded communion rail. 3 segmental pointed arches to north aisle, corbelled to aisle side. Octagonal C19 font with carved quatrefoil to each side. Good series of wall monuuments of c.1694 to east end. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.III, 1923, p.507; Buildings Buildings of England: Berkshire, p. 179; David Cole, The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott, 1980, p.39).
Listing NGR: SU5915884138
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cole, D, The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott, (1980), 39
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 179
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 507
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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