Church of St John the Baptist and St Felix
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST FELIX, ORWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182986
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist and St Felix
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST FELIX, ORWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182986
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist and St Felix
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST FELIX, ORWELL ROAD
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 AND ST FELIX, ORWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Felixstowe
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 29960 34438
Details
FELIXSTOWE ORWELL ROAD TM 23 SE 3/29 Church of St John the Baptist and St Felix II*
Parish church, 1894-99 by Sir Arthur Blomfield, completed 1914. Red brick, Bath stone dressings, tile roofs. South west tower, aisled nave, south porch, chancel, north transept, south lady chapel. Tower. 4 stages and spire. Stepped angle buttresses, faceted stone spirelets , stone parapet, octagonal stone spire. South doorway, moulded arched entrance beneath stone gable with crocketed finials. Paired lancets at 1st stage and belfry. Clock face on south, east and west faces. Stair tower on north side. Quatrefoil lucarne openings to spire. Nave of 6 bays, articulated by buttressed brick pilaster strips, alternating with clerestory windows. Aisle lancets, singly or in groups of 2 or 3. Clerestory windows: encircled cinquefoils alternate with sexfoils in spherical triangles. Gabled south porch,stone dressed brick, brick parapet, doorway of multiple mouldings. West window. Group of 4 lancets beneath encircled sexfoil. Chancel and Lady chapel in similar style. East window 3 grouped lancets below encircled cinquefoil. Interior: Nave of 4 1/2 bays, north and south aisles. Arcades of circular drum iron piers faced with brick, brick bases and capitals, pointed moulded brick arches, the mouldings running into broach stops of stone. Brick walls, punctuated by horizontal stone and roughcast bands. 6 bay scissor braced crownpost roof. Aisle roofs queen posts with lateral braces. Baptistery at west end north aisle; stone font, hexagonal stem, 12- sided bowl. Rood screen and parclose screen, set on stone base, 1910 by Gerald Cogswell. Pointed chancel arch with half arch to each sideleading to transept and lady chapel. East window flanked by blind arched openings with blank Y tracery. Piscina and 2 sedilia with cinquefoil heads. Mosaic marble reredos framed by polychromatic mural decoration. 4 cant wagon roof. 2-bay arcade to south divides off Lady Chapel. Pulpit 1903 by Whitcombe and Cogswell. Glass mainly James Powell and Sons, London.
Listing NGR: TM2996034438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286273
- 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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