CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST WHITES ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186462
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST WHITES ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186462
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST WHITES ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ST WHITES ROAD

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Cinderford
National Grid Reference:: SO 65277 12786

Details

SO 61 SE CINDERFORD ST. WHITES ROAD (north side)

10/29 Church of St. John the Evangelist

II

Parish Church; 1844, by Edward Blore. Squared coursed masonry, ashlar dressings, slate roof. Cruciform plan, with 4-bay nave, narrow aisles, transepts, chancel, south porch and south west tower. Early English style. Porch low, gabled, square set buttresses. To left tower, in three stages; lowest square with square-set gabled buttresses, sloping offset to octagonal second and third stages, third ashlar with one lancet per face, louvred. Above corbelled eaves and spire with roll moulding to angles. Aisle plinth, plain string course at sill level, tall lancets, corbelled eaves; no clerestory. Transept door beneath central lancet, quatrefoil in gable, large kneelers to gable copings. Chancel semi-octagon, buttressed, height relating to nave arcade. All lancet windows have hood moulds. Internally painted brick walls, chancel only plastered. Kneelers and certain voussoirs to chancel arch, rock faced. Square timber posts form arcade, carrying queen strut trusses. Crossing has larger hollow octagonal timber posts, carrying arch-braced collar trusses. Western gallery on cast iron columns, formerly galleries in transepts (organ now in north transept). Ribs to angles of chancel roof, rising from stone corbels. Chancel screen added c1913.

Listing NGR: SO6527712786

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Legacy System number:: 354099
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.