Roman Catholic Church of St John Fisher
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOHN FISHER, SHIRE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100866
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St John Fisher
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOHN FISHER, SHIRE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100866
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St John Fisher
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOHN FISHER, SHIRE 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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOHN FISHER, SHIRE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chorleywood
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 02330 96053
Details
TQ 09 NW CHORLEYWOOD SHIRE LANE (Southeast side) Chorleywood
5/106 R.C. Church of St. John Fisher
II
House, now house and chapel. c.1890 extended c.1905 by C.F.A. Voysey. Red brick, mostly roughcast. Stone dressings. Tiled roofs. Arts and Crafts Style addition to detached suburban house. All 2 storeys. Addition by Voysey to right: ground floor long 12 light stone mullion and transom window, arranged 1:4:1, leaded lights, tile dripmould. First floor two 3 light stone mullion windows. Brick pilaster buttresses at ends. Sprocketed eaves. Steeply hipped roof with a tall roughcast stack to right with a tile coped triangulated cap. To left earlier house has a projecting gabled bay to left, ground floor rectangular bay window, corniced architraved first floor sashes, applied timber in gable. On left return towards rear a door by Voysey with heartshaped ends to strap hinges. To rear of later block a ground floor later C20 addition, first floor 4 light stone mullioned window, an entrance and a single light. A stack to right. Stone mullioned windows inserted to rear of earlier house by Voysey, 5 and 3 lights. 1 storey hipped projection to rear right. Interior: round arches, fireplaces, doors, low picture rails and ventilation grilles by Voysey. Formerly known as Hill Cottage. (Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TQ0233096053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158747
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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