CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1154894
Date first listed: 26-Jan-1956
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Dorset
District: West Dorset (District Authority)
Parish: Tincleton
National Grid Reference: SY 77581 91821
Details
TINCLETON
SY 79 SE
9/156 Church of Saint John
the Evangelist
26.1.56
GV II
Anglican Parish Church. Built 1849, Architect Benjamin Ferrey. Rough ashlar
walls with ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs with coped gables. Nave, chancel
with vestry on south, north porch. Gabled bell-cote at west end, with 2
bell openings. Angle buttresses to nave. In north wall of nave three
2-light windows with geometrical tracery and hoodmoulds, divided by
buttresses with gabled offsets. Inner and outer doorways to porch have
moulded arches with shafts with moulded caps. Good ironwork to door. In
north wall of chancel a moulded arched door, with hoodmould, 2 lancets with
cinquefoil cusping, and hoodmoulds. Diagonal buttresses to chancel, with
gabled offsets. East window of 3-lights with geometrical tracery, and
hoodmould. Vestry, on south, has in east wall, a square headed 2-light
window with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould. Similar window in south
wall, with reticulated tracery. South wall of nave has two 2-light windows
and buttresses as in north wall. West of these, a lancet with trefoil
cusping, and hoodmould. In west wall, 2 lancets with traceried heads under
single relieving arch. Interior, walls plastered. Chancel roof has cusped
principals and windbracing, - principals carried on angel corbels. 2-bay
arcade to vestry has octagonal columns with moulded capitals and moulded
arches. Alabaster reredos flanked by arcading. 2 early C19 memorials on
north wall. Nave has arch braced collar beam roof, principals carried on
moulded corbels with carved heads. C19 stone pulpit. On north wall,
monument to George Baynard, 1693 with broken curved pediment, urns, scroll
brackets, Coat of Arms below tablet. West of door, monument to Rachel
Baynard, 1669, with crest above tablet, flat apron to cill with primitive
carving of cheru'b's head. On south wall, monument to Maria White, 1718,
tablet flanked by Tuscan columns, entablature with broken curved pediment
and scroll brackets. Coat of Arms below cill, with cherub's head and winged
skull. C12 stone font with circular fluted bowl on C19 or C20 base. (RCHM
Monument 1 Dorset Vol III)
Listing NGR: SY7758191821
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 106345
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (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.
End of official listing