Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174287
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174287
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, 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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 72146 67771
Details
SE 76 NW WELBURN CHURCH LANE (south side) 5/119 Church of St John
II Church. 1859-65. By Mallinson and Healey. Early English style. Cruciform plan with north-west tower and south-east vestry. Chiselled sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings; slate roof. 3-stage buttressed tower on tall plinth. Studded west door with decorative hinges beneath a pointed arch on slender shafts. Roundel with trefoil tracery to second stage. 2-light louvred bell-openings beneath pointed head-stopped hood-moulds to third stage. Broach spire with lucarnes, weathervane and cross. Nave west window of 4 lights with foiled intersecting tracery; north and south nave windows of 2 lights, alternately geometric and foiled intersecting tracery; transept windows of 3 lights with geometric tracery, between buttresses; east window of 4 lights with geometric tracery. All windows have pointed head-stopped hood-moulds. A string course at west door impost level becomes a continuous sill band around all parts of the church. Vestry has a pointed door to south and 2-light mullion and transom window to west. Coped gables with gable crosses throughout. Centre ridge stack to vestry. Interior: original fittings survive intact. East window by Hardman.
Listing NGR: SE7214667771
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329801
- 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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