Church of St. John the Baptist
Church of St. John the Baptist, Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1151642
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. John the Baptist, Church Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1151642
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. John the Baptist, Church Street
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 Baptist, Church Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 47975 99741
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 November 2021 to update text and reformat to current standards
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MEXBOROUGH
CHURCH STREET (south side)
Church of St. John the Baptist
I
Church. C12 core, otherwise C13, C14 and C15; aisle rebuilt and apse added 1891. Rubble and coursed, dressed sandstone, sheet lead and copper roofs. West tower with lean-to south vestry, three-bay aisled nave with south porch, two-bay chancel with apse.
Tower: chamfered plinth. Offset angle buttresses to lower part flank square-headed, two-light west window with hoodmould. Rectangular slit windows and offset beneath two-light, square-headed belfry openings with hoodmoulds. Corbelled band with gargoyles, ashlar parapet, recessed octagonal spire. Lean-to on south side has three-light windows to south and west. Nave rebuilt south aisle has gabled porch with cross. Windows have ogee lights in square-headed openings with hoodmoulds: single-light on left of porch, three- and two-light windows on right divided by buttress. Roll-moulded parapet copings. Two, two-light clerestorey windows as aisle; renewed, embattled parapet. North aisle and clerestorey generally as south.
Chancel: lower. C13 rubble walling heightened in ashlar. Diagonal east buttresses, Quoined priest's door with pointed arch and hoodmould has, on left, a tall, square-headed three-light window and, on right,band beneath two quoined lancets, one of them with billeted hood. Three ashlar courses beneath embattled parapet. Lancet on north wall. Polygonal apse with band beneath cusped two-light windows on five faces, linked hoodmould, small embattlements to parapet.
Interior: pointed, double-chamfered tower arch with moulded capitals, similar arches to south arcade and chancel. Transitional north arcade of three bays has cylindrical piers, plainly-moulded capitals and round arches. Trefoil-headed piscina recess in chancel. C15-C16 nave roof with cambered tie beams and moulded framing. Medieval, octagonal font. Remains of C10-Cll cross in south aisle.
Monuments: several to Savile family in chancel including; on north wall, to Samuel (d1685) skull beneath cartouche with cherubs heads and gadrooned-vase finial; on south wall with bowed panel beneath broken segmental pediment, 1695. Late C17 oak panelling fitted in C19 apse possibly from Mexborough Old Hall.
Listing NGR: SK4797299741
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334556
- 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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