Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185796
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185796
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lea Marston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20458 92713
Details
LEA MARSTON SP29SW 5/66 Church of St. John the Baptist 08/09/61 (Formerly listed as Church of St John) GV II Church. Early C14 nave extended and provided with a porch in the C15, restored, partially rebuilt, and added to in 1876-7. Medieval dressed freestone blocks and C19 random rubble and ashlar; plain tile roofs with stone coped ranges. North-west tower with diagonal buttresses, 2-bay nave and 2-bay chancel. North-west tower: 1876-7. 3 stages with scroll-moulded strings and crenellated parapet with continuous moulded coping around merlons and embrasures. Pointed west window of 2 trefoil-headed lights with Geometrical style tracery and a scroll-moulded dripstone with stops carved as heads. Single trefoil-headed upper and lower lights and a quarterfoil in the spandrel. Nave: early C14 but heavily restored in the C19. 2 C14 buttresses to the south side both of 2 stages with gables. Also on this side are two pointed windows with deeply wave-moulded surrounds and C19 reticulated tracery. The nave was extended to the west in the C15 and the gabled south porch is of this date. This has a pointed and hollow-moulded entrance arch, and a pair of trefoil headed loops to each side. C14 pointed south door of 2 moulded orders with a returned hood mould. 2 north windows with C19 tracery of early to mid-C14 character. Chancel: 1876-7. Pointed windows with Geometrical style tracery and scroll-moulded dripstones terminating in bunches of naturalistic foliage. Interior: King-post roof over the nave, probably mostly C17. C19 pointed chancel arch with roll and fillet moulding springing from short corbelled shafts with moulded capitals and bands. The nave windows to the south have pointed rear-arches and stepped surrounds. Barrel roof over the chancel. Fittings: C19 octagonal font with traceried panels. Full set of C19 pine benches. Elaborate C19 pulpit with extravagantly carved panels. C19 stalls with carved poppyheads. C19 wooden reredos, panelled and traceried with patterned wall tiles to each side. Wooden chest inscribed: "Joseph Spink/Church Mardin/AND FECIT 1724". Monuments: on the floor of the chancel is a heavily eroded incised slab, probably medieval. Sir Charles Adderley, died 1682: tablet with scrolled pediment containing a coat of arms. Julia Anna-Eliza Adderley, died 1820 in a similar style. Bowyer Adderley, died 1747: tablet with broken segmental pediment containing coat of arms. Charles Adderley, died 1746: in a similar style. Mrs. Adderley, died 1784: Coadestone with a roundel containing a seated woman, and an urn on top. A pair of grave slabs on the chancel floor: Mary Adderley, died 1707 and Arden Adderley, died 1727, both with carved skulls. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p332; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, (1965), ppll5-116)
Listing NGR: SP2045892713
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309380
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 115 116
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 332
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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