Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154223
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154223
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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 LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harescombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83737 10416
Details
SO 81 SW HARESCOMBE CHURCH LANE (south side) 5/93 church of St. John the Baptist
10.1.55
GV II*
Parish church. C13; 1871 restoration by Francis Niblett. Coursed, squared and ashlar limestone; stone slate roof. Nave without aisles; chancel, south porch and north vestry. C13 chamfered pointed-arched south doorway with medieval plank and batten door; C19 restored porch with pointed arch and diagonal corner buttresses to parapet gable; narrow side lancets. Two trefoil-headed nave lancets to right; east end of nave has wide offset buttress and wide coping to gable below C13 bellcote: octagonal stone spire having 4 attached octagonal pinnacles with C19 iron crosses; central moulded bracket divides space for 2 bells. Two C18 memorials on wall west of porch. Blocked C13 doorway to buttressed north nave wall with 3 trefoil-headed lancets. C19 2-light west window with quatrefoil tracery and carved head labels to hood mould. C19 restored pair of cinquefoil lancets to east chancel wall; 2 trefoil-headed C13 lancets to south with C18 memorial to right; single trefoil headed lancet to north with lean-to C19 vestry to right having trefoil-headed north lancets. Limewashed interior. C19 4-bay collar truss nave roof; C13 pointed chancel arch with chamfered archivolt; chancel altered in Cl9; 3-bay arcaded reredos with tile inlay; raised floor; plank boarded chancel roof; large chamfered segmental arch to vestry. Cinquefoil-headed piscina in south chancel wall with credence table; cinquefoil-headed south nave piscina. C20 altar screen with carved angels on riddle posts; Jacobean hexagonal pulpit on Cl9 moulded stone base; C19 box pews. Two C18 memorials, either side of chancel arch: right to Rev. Mr Jonathan Blagge BA, died 1726, has oval inscription panel with putti and cherubs, and is surmounted by bust of the rector, all painted; left is oval moulded memorial to CHARLES STOCK, Rector of Harescombe, died 1707/8, also painted. C19 stained glass to west window; C20 to east. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)
Listing NGR: SO8373710416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131748
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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