Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, EAST WITTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130931
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, EAST WITTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130931
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, EAST WITTON
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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, EAST WITTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Witton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 14690 86018
Details
SE 18 NW EAST WITTON TOWN EAST WITTON (north side) 10/29 Church of St John the Evangelist 15.2.67 (Formerly listed under Masham II Road)
Church. Dated 1809. By H H Seward for the Earl of Ailesbury. Ashlar sandstone, stone slate roof. Nave and chancel in one, with aisles, south porch, north baptistry and west tower. Tower: off-set angle buttresses, 4-stages with 1-, 2-, 1-, 3-light openings, embattled parapet. On west face, pointed doorway in Elizabethan-style flat-headed surround with hood- mould, and plaque recording that church was built to commemorate the fiftieth year of the reign of George III, clock. Gabled south porch with diagonal buttresses, doorway as before, quatrefoil in gable. 6-bay nave and chancel aisle, divided by off-set buttresses. 3 windows of 4-lights with uncusped Y-tracery, hood-moulds with label stops. In fifth bay, vestry doorway as before; in sixth bay late-C19 single-light window with 5 cusps. In sixth bay on north side, 3-light lancet window to organ chamber. East end: off-set diagonal buttresses, 5-light uncusped Perpendicular east window, embattled parapet. 2-light Geometric north window of baptistry. Interior: 4-bay arcades with 4-centred Perpendicular-style arches on tall octagonal piers. Perpendicular-style chancel arch with Tudor flowers on soffit. Walls of sanctuary lined with very fine late C19 encaustic tiles depicting Lord's Prayer, Creed and Ten Commandments, also tiled reredos and tiled floor. Over doorway into tower, plaster coat of arms of Queen Victoria in quatrefoil. Arms of George III over vestry door. The new church replaced the old church of St Martin at Low Thorpe.
Listing NGR: SE1469086018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321651
- 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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