Church of Saint John
CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN, MAIN STREET, YO18 7PP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1149549
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN, MAIN STREET, YO18 7PP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1149549
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN, MAIN STREET, YO18 7PP
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 SAINT JOHN, MAIN STREET, YO18 7PP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Allerston
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 87829 82912
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/10/2016
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In the entry for
SE 88 SE,
10/7 (8/5)
ALLERSTON,
MAIN STREET (east side),
Church of St John
(Formerly listed as: ALLERSTON, VILLAGE STREET (east side, off), Church of Saint Mary)
(Previously Listed as Church of St Johns)
10.1.53
GV
II*
In the descriptive notes the words "3-stage buttress has recessed pointed embattled
tower with door beneath hood-mould to diagonal west", shall be amended to read:
"3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses and recessed pointed door beneath hood-
mould to western elevation".
In the following sentence of the above descriptive notes the words "bearing the
emblems of the Hospitallers and the Hastings family" shall be amended to read:
"bearing the traces of emblems of the Hospitallers and the Hastings family".
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SE 88 SE,
10/7 (8/5)
ALLERSTON,
MAIN STREET (east side),
Church of St John
(Formerly listed as: ALLERSTON, VILLAGE STREET (east side, off), Church of Saint Mary)
(Previously Listed as Church of St Johns)
10.1.53
GV
II*
Church. C14 nave, porch and chancel; early C15 tower. Chancel restored
1870; nave, porch and tower re-roofed and partly rebuilt 1881-3. Coursed
sandstone on plinth with quoins; slate roof. West tower; 7 bay continuous
nave and chancel. 3-stage buttress has recessed pointed embattled tower
with door beneath hood-mould to diagonal west. 3-light window with panel
tracery and stopped pointed hood-mould above, the stops carved as shields
bearing the emblems of the Hospitallers and the Hastings family. 2-light
transomed bell openings with louvres beneath stopped pointed hood-moulds
to each face. Parapet, carved with a band of blind tracery, is supported
by a corbel table carved with a variety of motifs. Coped, gabled porch has
a pointed opening surmounted by a reset foliate cross and contains a pointed
chamfered doorway with a pointed piscina to its right. 2-light pointed
windows with quatrefoils in the heads to nave and chancel. Ogee-arched
priest's door to chancel. On the north side are two 2-light windows similar
to those on the south, and one 3-light flat-headed window, all reset.
Blocked round-arched north door. The east window is of 3 lights with
reticulated tracery. Cavetto moulded eaves cornice. coped gable surmounted
by cross. Several fragments of carved stone have been reset in the north
and south walls. Interior: the pointed tower arch of two chamfered orders
springs from moulded corbels. C15 octagonal font on cylindrical pedestal.
Piscinae in south wall of nave and chancel.
Listing NGR: SE8782982912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329626
- 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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