Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURCH LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1074247
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURCH LANE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2006-07-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/15723/01
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter J Ellis. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1074247
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURCH 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 EVANGELIST, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dadlington & Sutton Cheney
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38671 00336
Details
SUTTON CHENEY SK30 SE CHURCH LANE, SHENTON 4/117 (South West Side)
7.11.66 Church of St. John the Evangelist
GV II*
Parish Church. Largely c1860. Rock faced limestone ashlar with shingle roof. West Tower, nave with transepts and chancel. Tower of three stages with angle buttresses. Articulated to south by short stair turret up to second stage, with doorway at ground floor. 2-light deeply recessed. bell chamber light with quatrefoils. Embattled parapet. Architectural idiom throughout is the decorated style, with heavily cut tracery of 2 and 3-lights. Heavy buttressed and coped gabled south porch with simple chamfer to inner arch. Sill band and plinth to all external walls, 3-light window to east of chancel. Good articulation of the elements of the building, in the changing angles and roof lines and massing. Inside triple chamfered tower arch without responds. Lierne vault within the tower space and door with deep moulded ogee head to northern stairway. Nave roof has steeply curved main trusses alternating with scissor braced principal rafters. South transept filled by organ. Text round north transept window and chancel arch which has two filletted cylindrical shafts, and deep moulding with hood mould and corbel heads. It is flanked by lancet windows. Chancel is proportionately very narrow with continuous sill band arid reredos with trefoiled arches. Sedilia and aumbries to north and south. Roof panelled in squares with planking, wrought iron altar rails. Some memorials replaced from earlier Church: in the north transcept various C16 brasses, inscriptions without illustrations, and in the west tower a wall memorial with two busts beneath a broken pediment commemorating Ann and William Wollaston, d1629 and 1660. Stained glass: in the west window of tower emblematic, in the north windows the evangelists in the medieval revival style. In the north transept, by Kempe: St. Michael and the archangels; the large figures are surrounded by smaller angels in the upper lights and heraldic emblems etc below. White and yellow colours predominate with peacock feather wings and sumptuous detail. It is of 1918, a memorial to Frederick Wollaston. In the east window, a small central lozenge of Christ carrying the cross within a vine scroll with emblematic design. Octagonal font with simple emblems in deeply recessed panels. Large free standing stone octagonal pulpit with richly traceried panels.
Listing NGR: SK3867100336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188112
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 13-Jun-2026 at 17:53:15.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.