Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089134
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089134
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, WOOLMERS 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, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, WOOLMERS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertingfordbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28639 10869
Details
HERTINGFORDBURY CHAPEL LANE TL 21 SE (South side) Letty Green 5/51 Church of St. John the 24.11.66 Baptist (formerly listed as Church of St. Mary with St. John) - II
Parish church, built as chapel of ease. 1849-50 by G. Fowler Jones, probably endowed by the 6th Earl Cowper of Panshanger (q.v.). Extended 1890. Brick with knapped flint facing, stone dressed. Slate roofs. Gothic Revival Style. Originally a simple rectangle, 4 bay nave with 1 bay chancel. Extended to E by 1 bay with organ bay/vestry to N, mission room to S and porch to W. Gabled porch to W, leaded lights in timber frame on flint and stone base, ridge cross. 2 tall lancets in W wall with an upper hexafoil light. End buttresses to N and S. Stone coped gable parapet. Sanctus bellcote on ridge with cusped bell opening, buttresses, ridge cross on gabled head. Nave walls have 4 lancets with trefoiled heads, buttresses, original chancel bay has blocked openings. Mission Room to S has separate roof. W gable end, pointed arched entrance, paired lancets with hood mould, parapet with kneelers. Similar paired lancet to E. Chancel E end has 3 trefoil headed lancets, an upper hexafoil light, coped parapet with kneelers. Organ bay/vestry has gable to N. 2 lancets with a hood mould, coped parapet with kneelers. Interior: arched braced collar beam roof, later chancel bay is narrower with a timber chancel arch on shaped brackets, chamfered arch to organ bay and pointed arched vestry door. Panelled Gothic reredos. Ornamental iron communion rails, timber pulpit with open Gothic panels with iron ornament. Simple patterned glass in nave windows, figures in E window. (The Builder, vol. VII, No.347, Sept.29, 1849: VCH 1912).
Listing NGR: TL2863910869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356157
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912)
The Builder in 29 September, Vol. 7, (1849)
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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