CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.