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:
- 1198542
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- 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:
- 1198542
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- 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.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burcombe Without
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 07304 31166
Details
SU 03 SE BURCOMBE WITHOUT NORTH BURCOMBE (north side)
2/111 Church of St. John the Baptist 23.3.60
II*
Anglican parish church. Saxon, C13, C15, tower rebuilt 1667, restored 1859 by T.H. Wyatt. Rubble stone, tiled roof with coped verges. Chancel, nave with low south tower over porch, C19 north aisle. Two-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, Tudor-arched doorway with cusped spandrels and square hoodmould, offset bellstage with 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned louvre on south and east side, 2-light Tudor-arched louvre to west, sundial below and circular gilded clock face on south side, plain parapet with saddleback coping. South side of nave has 2-light square-headed window with cusped lights to left of tower, two 2-light square- headed windows with cusped lights and hoodmoulds to right. South side of chancel has two pairs of cusped ogee lancets, east end has C19 plate tracery window, Saxon long-and-short work to corners of east end, north side has attached C19 vestry with cusped lancets and pointed doorway. North aisle of 1859 has three C16-style 2- light windows and one single-light, all with square hoodmoulds, quatrefoil to west end. West end of nave has cross window with cusped pointed lights and hoodmould with unfinished terminals, trefoil over. Interior: Porch has pointed chamfered inner doorway with C19 door, plain pointed stoup to right. Nave has C19 seven-bay boarded vaulted roof. C19 north aisle with 4-bay double-chamfered pointed arcade on cylindrical piers. C19 double chamfered chancel arch, C19 wagon roof, polychrome tiled floor. Fittings: C19 pews, late C19 C16-style panelling in chancel, chamfered pointed piscina on south wall, C19 stone pulpit with open arcading. Restored C12 cylindrical stone font in nave. Stained glass windows in chancel of1880s and 1890s. Monuments include a segmental eared tablet to Matthew Pitts died 1746 and a marble to Edmund Pitts died 1770 in nave, marble in north aisle to Ruth Moore died 1806 with fluted pilasters and frieze. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: SU0730431166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320697
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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