Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130826
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130826
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hipswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 18768 98304
Details
NORTH YORKSHIRE RICHMONDSHIRE 5339 SE 19 NE HIPSWELL HIPSWELL 5/27 Church of Saint John 4.2.69 II Church. 1811 and 1893. The church built for Reverend James Robinson. The later work by C.H. Fowler of Durham. Coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Nave and narrower sanctuary under one roof with west belfry, south porch and north vestry. Quoins. Nave: 5 bays. Belfry has bench mark on west face, light vent and bellcote with corbelled stone cupola. Porch has 4-centred arched opening with date "1811" on apex stone; shaped kneelers and ashlar copings to gable. Inner doorway with chamfered ashlar surround with 4-centred arch. 4 windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds of 1893. Stepped ashlar buttresses between windows and diagonally at corners. Lancet window to l-bay sanctuary. Ashlar copings. 3-light east window with cusped tracery of 1893. North windows have simpler Y-tracery. North vestry of 1893: east lancet window, west board door in chamfered square-headed surround. Interior: chamfered pointed arch to sanctuary. Shouldered doorway of 1893 to vestry. In vestry, C16 trefoiled head of screen or window, 2 1/2 lights with carving in spandrels. Open 5-light timber screen at west end. Wall monument: Reverend James Robinson of the Friary, Richmond, the patron of the church, d.1817, by Davies of Newcastle- upon-Tyne. VHC i, p. 312.
Listing NGR: SE1876898304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321912
- 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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