Parish Church of St John the Evangelist
PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120495
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120495
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Holme
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 89921 85962
Details
SY 88 NE EAST HOLME 5/112 Parish Church of St John the Evangelist
II
Small parish church, built 1865-6. Architect J Hicks. Ironstone walls, stone slate roofs with coped gables. In Gothic Revival style. Nave, chancel with north vestry. South porch. Small west bell turret with trefoil arch under stone gable. Plain lancet windows to nave and chancel. Triple lancets to east window. Double lancets to west window with quatrefoil over. Internal walls plastered, with contemporary mural paintings. Good carving to chancel arch capitals, nave and chancel roof corbels and cornices. Chancel and west windows have rere-arches with Purbeck marble shafts and carved caps. Arch-braced roofs to nave and chancel. All fittings contemporary except for a C17 brass tablet - from the former Priory Church. Three medieval stone coffin lids in churchyard - rather eroded. Good example of small C19 church. RCHM Monument 1. Note. The chancel arch from the former Pirory Church was re-erected in St John's Chapel, Creech-Steeple Parish - q.v.
Listing NGR: SY8992185962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108571
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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