Church of Saint John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154894
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154894
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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 THE EVANGELIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary 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.
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