Church of St John the Baptist
Church of St John the Baptist, Church Road, Cookham Dean
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117570
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St John the Baptist, Church Road, Cookham Dean
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117570
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St John the Baptist, Church Road, Cookham Dean
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 Road, Cookham Dean
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cookham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 87137 85115
Details
SU 88 NE
2/13
COOKHAM
CHURCH ROAD (east side)
Cookham Dean
Church of St. John the Baptist
II
Parish Church. 1849 by R.C. Carpenter in an early C14 style. South chapel added c1866. Flint with Bath stone dressings; slate gabled and coped roof. Nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch and bellcote. Plinth, angled and square buttresses. Timber gabled porch with cusping and carved bargeboard. South front: two-light windows with cusped tracery with square heads and labels on aisle. Similar but with two-centred arch on south chapel, with mask and foliage labels. East front: three-light window with reticulated tracery. West front: two-light window with cusped tracery.
Interior: plain, white. Four bay nave, arch braced collar roof. Two bay chancel, similar roof but with thin arched wind braces to side purlins. Four bay arcade to south aisle with alternate round and octagonal columns, moulded capitals and bases. Stained glass window of 1893 in north wall by Kempe.
Listing NGR: SU8713785115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40822
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 123
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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