Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188442
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188442
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, MAIN STREET
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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Grimston
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 68551 21893
Details
GRIMSTON MAIN STREET (North Side) SK 68 21 Church of St John the 20/262 Baptist 1.1.68
GV II*
Church. C13 and C15. Restored by R W Johnson 1866. Coursed, squared ironstone, slate roofs. Chancel, nave, S transept, S porch and W tower. 2-bay chancel has 3-light E window with Perpendicular tracery with hood mould and label stops, lancet window to N, 2-light windows to S with straight heads, cued ogee-arched heads to lights and hood mould with label stops. Nave has blocked arch to forum N transept, blocked N door with chamfer and hood mould, and 3 2-light windows at clerestory level with Perpendicular tracery, 4-centred heads and hood moulds. 4 similar clerestorey windows to S. S transept has small lancet window to E and 3- light window to S with Perpendicular tracery, both with hood moulds. Renewed S door with shafts, many-moulded head and, hood mould in C19 porch with shafted doorway and hood mould. 2-stage tower has 3-light W window with Perpendicular tracery and 2-light bell-chamber openings with Perpendicular tracery, all with hood moulds. Cusped lozenge frieze to base of battlemented parapet; gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles to angles. Interior: Double piscina in transept with pointed trefoiled arches. Nave has Perpendicular roof with arch-braced ties on carved head corbels, 1 tier of moulded purlins, moulded ridge and bosses. Clock of c.1600, a very early provincial example of an anchor escapement. Stain-glass SE chancel window, early C20 by Baguley, Newcastle. Buildings of England Leics, 1984 p.170.
Listing NGR: SK6855121893
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190202
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 170
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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