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:
- 1116350
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- 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:
- 1116350
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, 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 BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bisbrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 88725 99603
Details
BISBROOKE CHURCH LANE SP 89 NE 4/1 10.11.55 Church of St John the Baptist. GV II
Parish church. Totally rebuilt 1871 "to the designs of the late Mr Langley" (Pevsner). Tower completed 1914. Coursed ironstone rubble with Collyweston slate roofs to nave and chancel, and Welsh slate roofs to aisles. In Decorated style. W tower at end of S aisle, nave, aisles, chancel, N vestry. Tower is of 4 stages, with angle buttresses, battlemented parapet and 2-light traceried openings to bell-chamber. Second stage has pair of louvred cusped lancets to each side, and lowest stage has 2-light traceried windows to S and W. N side has niche with moulded corbel and canopy to third stage, and arched door in moulded surround with shafts. Nave has 3-light traceried window and cusped triangular window in W end and 3-bay clerestory of 2-light rectangular windows with ogee tracery. Aisles have moulded parapets, plinths and sill strings, and 3 bays of 2-light traceried windows matching those of tower. N aisle is continued one bay to east to provide vestry with door in E end. Chancel has one bay of similar 2-light windows, and a 3-light traceried E window. Interior: 3-bay nave arcades with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Similar chancel arch. Arch-braced collar roofs. Contemporary fittngs. Stained glass of 1910 in SW window, and of 1978 in E window. Nothing appears to have been re-used from former building. (N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buildings of England, Leicestershire and Rutland, 1984, p 456).
Listing NGR: SP8872599603
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 187533
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 456
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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