Church of St John the Evangelist
Church of St John the Evangelist, Oxborough Road, Oxborough, PE33 9PS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1169766
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Oxborough Road, Oxborough, PE33 9PS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1169766
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Oxborough Road, Oxborough, PE33 9PS
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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 Evangelist, Oxborough Road, Oxborough, PE33 9PS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oxborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 74410 01449
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 April 2022 to correct the name, remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards
TF 7401
13/33
OXBOROUGH
OXBOROUGH ROAD (south east side)
Church of St John the Evangelist
(Formerly listed as Church of St.John)
23.6.60
GV
I
Parish church. Medieval and later. Bedingfeld chantry chapel founded in 1496. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Ashlar facing to chantry chapel. Lead roofs. North aisle with porch; base of north wall of west tower; chancel with north vestry and chantry chapel to south; part of south aisle wall. (The rest collapsed in 1948).
North aisle with three-light C14 west window with mouchettes. Porch with moulded entrance and surviving moulded wall plates. Doorway of two plain-chamfered orders with hood mould. Five two-light panel-traceried north windows and a three-light east window in similar style. Six surviving two-light late Medieval clearstorey windows. South wall with three surviving two-light late Medieval windows.Chancel with two three-light panel-traceried north windows, a restored five-light panel-traceried east window and a similar three-light south window. Moulded priest's doorway. Chantry chapel with one partly blocked three-light panel-traceried east window and three C16 three-light windows without tracery beneath four-centred arches. Westernmost bay of chantry chapel in flint with a restored three-light late Medieval window. C15 sanctus bellcote with badly weathered blind tracery. Six bay north arcade of octagonal piers supporting plain-chamfered arches of two orders. Late Medieval north aisle roof with moulded principals and purlins and spandrel tracery. One and a half bays of south arcade survive blocked with an to chantry chapel.
Interior: chancel with blocked C16 arcade of two bays formerly opening into chantry chapel. Four-centred arches and carved polygonal capitals. Late Medieval arch-braced roof. Piscina cum sedilia in clunch with miniature rib vaulting and carved decoration including blind tracery and a frieze of angels. Surviving traces of original paint. Bedingfeld Chantry Chapel. Retains original arch-braced and roll-moulded roof with carved spandrels. Three carved wall posts with seated figures beneath canopies. Two celebrated early C16 terra cotta tombs (Baggs, 1968). Three other marble monuments of high quality.
Listing NGR: TF7441001449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baggs, A.P, C16 Terra-Cotta Tombs in East Anglia in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 125, (1968), .
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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