Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185719
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185719
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Copston Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45196 88420
Details
COPSTON MAGNA SP48NE 5/9 Church of St. John 06/10/60 - II
Church. 1849. Granite rubble with limestone dressings. Chancel and vestry have plain-tile roofs; nave and porch have C20 cement tile roofs. Coped gable parapets; chancel has twin gablet kneelers; nave and porch have moulded kneelers. Chancel, nave, south-west porch, south-east vestry. Gothic Revival early C14 style. 2-bay chancel; 4-bay nave. Chancel has buttresses of 2 offsets flush with east wall. East window of 3 lights has bar tracery, splay sill course and hood mould with head stops. Bar tracery throughout. South side has one and north side has 2 trefoiled western lancets. All windows have hood moulds with return stops. Vestry has pitched roof with octagonal pinnacle to gable. Trefoiled lancets, paired to east and single to south. Chamfered west doorway with plank door. Nave has western angle and side buttresses. Porch has buttresses flush with front. Doorway has nook shafts, arch of 2 moulded orders and hood mould with head stops. Doorway of 2 moulded orders inside. Plank door. Two 2-light windows to south and 3 to north; trefoiled lancets. West front has central buttress. Two 2-light windows. Gable has sexfoil window. West bellcote has gable and chamfered trefoiled arch. Interior is plastered. Arched-brace roofs. Chancel roof is moulded and has stone angel corbels. Chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders, the inner with half-octagonal responds and moulded capitals. Hood mould with head stops. Fittings: painted metal Commandment boards to left and right of chancel arch. Traceried stone pulpit. Octagonal stone font. Original pews. Stained glass: east window 1887 by Edward Swinfen Harris. The church was built as a chapel of ease to Monks Kirby. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.VI, p.180; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.243).
Listing NGR: SP4519688420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308875
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1951), 243
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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