Church of St John the Baptist
Church of St John the Baptist, Church Green
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1122201
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St John the Baptist, Church Green
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1122201
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St John the Baptist, Church Green
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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 Baptist, Church Green
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Danbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 77930 05119
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 May 2025 to amend details in the description and to reformat the address and text to current standards
TL 7705
719/29/60
DANBURY
CHURCH GREEN
Church of St John the Baptist
10.04.67
I
A stone rubble church with stone dressings with a square west tower with a castellated parapet, outer diagonal buttresses and a shingled spire set back behind the parapet, considerably restored. The roof is tiled. The church is possibly of C12 origin but the earliest part of the present church is the base of the north arcade which is circa 1233. The nave, south arcade and west tower are of the C14. The steeple was first built in the C15. The church was extensively restored by either Sir George Gilbert Scott or George Gilbert Scott Junior in 1866 (unclear) and again in 1952 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, after bomb damage in 1941. The roof of the north aisle is of the C 14 and has a castellated wall plate carved with effigies of Kings and Queens of the period, probably the Edwards.
There is a squint from the north aisle of the chancel. Four of the back pews in the nave, (north side) are original, with poppy heads and carved with various beasts on the shoulders. The remaining pews are copies by Sir G G Scott. The north aisle has four late C 13 windows with two arched recesses below containing oak effigies of Knights in armour with crossed legs indicating either crusaders or church builders. The armour suggests a date between 1272 and 1307. An effigy in the south aisle is of a slightly later date. They probably represent members of the St Clere family who endowed the church and rebuilt the north aisle. The gallery to the bell platform has a railing of circa 1600, part of the Jacobean altar rail removed from the church during the Commonwealth, (RCHM 1 ).
Bibliography.
6790 (Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), An Inventory of Essex South
East, 1923, Vol4
Listing NGR: TL7793005119
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112484
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex South East, (1923)
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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