Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, VILLAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120106
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, VILLAGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120106
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, VILLAGE STREET
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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 EVANGELIST, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 01406 06179
Details
HINTON MARTELL SU 01 06 VILLAGE STREET (north side)
12/33 Church of St John the Evangelist 18.3.55
GV II
Parish Church, 1870 by J Hicks and G R Crickmay possibly with the involvement of Thomas Hardy (Brocklebank). Flint, rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs with stone gable copings. Plan: nave, chancel, north aisle; north organ chamber; west tower; south porch. West tower: 3 stages separated by weathered strings; embattled parapet; octagonal north vice turret; west window of 3 plate tracery lights under a pointed head; second stage has 2 reset C15 trefoiled single light windows; belfry has square headed windows of 2 trefoiled lights. North aisle: west window of 2 trefoiled, plate tracery lights under pointed heads; east window of 3 graduated lancets; north wall has pairs and triplets of trefoiled lancets. Nave: 2 light square headed window with Perpendicular tracery left of porch; right of porch are 2 reset late C15/early C16 square headed windows with labels having carved stops. Chancel: south wall has reset C14 pointed, 2-light window with Y-tracey left and a C19 copy right; east window of 3 lights with intersecting tracery, under a pointed head with a label with head stops. Porch has pointed, moulded arch with label with head stops.
Interior: pointed, moulded chancel arch with respond shafts having moulded caps and bases; 4 bay, pointed arcade with piers of 4 clustered shafts having moulded caps and bases; the east respond has C19 foliage carving; chancel to organ chamber arch segmental pointed of 2 chamfered orders; 4 bay arch-braced scissor truss roof to nave springing from carved corbels in the form of the Evangelists and Old Testament characters; pointed, ribbed barrel vault to chancel springing from carved angels; aisle has arch-braced collar and king post roof with bracing; C19 stone pulpit with carved panels; C19 glass, C13 font of Purbeck marble, with octagonal bowl having panels with pointed heads on octagonal stem and base; C19 monuments reset under tower; C19 pews etc; C20 painted tower screen. (R.C.H.M. Dorset Vol V, p.30, no. l.Newman J and Pevsner N The Buildings of England Dorset, 1972, p.229. Brocklebank, J. Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, 1979, p.49-50. A Short Guide to the Church and Village of Hinton Martell, Rev Wm. H Barnard, 1977).
Listing NGR: SU0140606179
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107491
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 30
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 229
Barnard, Reverend W H, A Short Guide to the Church and Village of Hinton Martell, (1977)
Brocklebank, J, Victorian Stone Carvers in Dorset Churches 1856-1880, (1979), 49-50
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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