Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083016
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083016
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burringham
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 83265 09038
Details
SE 80 NW BURRINGHAM HIGH STREET (west side)
1/4 Church of St John the Baptist -
- II
Church 1856-7 by S S Teulon. Red brick in English Bond, with black brick and limestone ashlar details. Slate roof; concrete tile roof to porch. High Victorian Gothic Revival style. West tower incorporating porch to south, 5-bay nave with apsidal chancel and organ chamber/vestry on north side. Chamfered plinth and cill band. Short tower has buttresses at junction with nave, 2-light north window with trefoil-headed lights divided by ashlar shaft and pierced quatrefoil over, a similar, taller, 3-light west window with foliate capitals, and a large sunk trefoil above porch containing 3 blocked trefoils and central roundel. Stepped brick Lombard frieze at eaves. Pyramidal roof with pinnacle; octagonal chimney/turret with decorative brickwork corbelled-out from north-west angle. Porch has buttresses flanking trefoil-headed outer door with moulded ashlar imposts and blocked brick roundel above, 4-bay blind arcade to sides with shafts between trefoil-headed openings, and tumbled brick gable with stone coping and kneelers. Pointed chamfered inner door of 3 orders; board door with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges. Nave has 2-light windows with dividing shafts and pierced roundels over. Chancel has lancets and three 2-Light trefoil-headed apse windows with pierced quatrefoils over. All openings have ashlar cills and pointed brick relieving arches; those to apse, tower and porch have ashlar blocks at cusps. Steeply-pitched roof with pinnacle to right. Interior: tower open to nave and chancel, with a pointed chamfered tower arch on stepped corbels. Polychrome brick decoration: yellow walls with red diaper pattern to chancel, cross pattern to nave and bands to tower; red and black window arches. Polychrome encaustic tile floor. Open king-post roof with trusses supported on corbels and raking struts to collars. Octagonal font with coloured encaustic tile panels. C19 stained glass to south and east windows. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, pp 207-8; S Muthesius, The High Victorian Movement in Architecture 1850-1870, 1972, pp 84-5.
Listing NGR: SE8326509038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165704
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 207-208
Muthesius, S, The High Victorian Movement in Architecture 1850-1870, (1972), 84-85
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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