Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127366
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1127366
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, STATION ROAD
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, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Waterbeach
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49737 65099
Details
TL 4865-4965 WATERBEACH STATION ROAD
(South Side)
12/161 CHURCH OF ST JOHN
31.8.62
GV II*
Parish Church. Two arcade bays survive of small c.1200 aisled
church possibly with transepts, extended by one bay to west in
early C13 when tower arch and tower were added. South aisle
rebuilt and extended in C15, clerestorey C15 with battlements
dated 1616. Tower and spire rebuilt after collapse in 1821.
Chancel rebuilt in Early English style 1849 and enlarged 1878.
North aisle rebuilt and enlarged by W.M. Fawcett. Chancel
redecorated internally with marble 1879-80 from designs by
J. Ladds, diocesan architect. Walls of flint rubble and
limestone rendered with Barnack limestone and clunch dressings.
Lead roofs, plain tile chancel roof. North elevation; chancel
with paired two-light windows, gault brick plinth. North aisle
and clerestorey of three bays with C19 three-light, foiled
windows in four-centred arches, embattled parapet. Porch with
angle buttresses and reused C13 two-centred arched doorway with
label and head stops. Tower with embattled parapet and
buttresses of two stages. Interior. c.1200 arcade of two bays
with octagonal piers with carved leaf decoration to capitals.
Tower arch with similar details to west bay of arcade. Restored
lancet west window. Nave roof C19, king post; south aisle roof
C15, five bays with semi-octagonal shafts and moulded caps to
wall posts supported on carved stone corbels. Monuments, C19
floor slabs, and black marble slab inscibed Wm Stone. Dr in
Physick Fellow of College of Physitians in London 1679. Wall
monument black and white marble to Samuel Peach 1832 by Patent
works Westminster, glass, shields and symbols of passion C15
with inscription, 'Fragments collected and reset 1874 by WMF' in
windows of south aisle. Two C13 coffin fragments in external
wall. Clock purchased by church wardens 1746. Font and marble
pulpit late C19.
Builder, Sept. 1848
Fawcett drawings, originally at vicarage (1955)
Faculty books 1863-76 p. 156
Pevsner, Buildings of England p. 476
R.C.H.M. (Cambs notes) 1955
Clay, K.W. Hist of Waterbeach p. 36 1859
Masters, R. Hist of Waterbeach
Listing NGR: TL4973765099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50707
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 476
Masters, R, History of Waterbeach, ()
Clay, W K, History of Waterbeach, (1859), 36
The Builder in September, (1848)
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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