Church of St John and Attached Forecourt Railings
CHURCH OF ST JOHN AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, LEMON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201497
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, LEMON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201497
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John and Attached Forecourt Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, LEMON 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 AND ATTACHED FORECOURT RAILINGS, LEMON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Truro
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 82447 44479
Details
TRURO
SW8244SW LEMON STREET 880-1/10/177 (East side) 08/01/71 Church of St John and attached forecourt railings
GV II
Anglican church, for Peel parish. 1828. By Philip Sambell, altered 1893-1900. Granite ashlar to west street elevation, otherwise local stone rubble with freestone, granite and brick dressings; dry Delabole slate roof hipped at the west end; cast-iron ogee gutters. Rectangular aisleless plan with apsidal chancel. Symmetrical 3-bay west front has corner pilasters and parapet with projecting central bay surmounted by a cupola on 6 slender wooden Tuscan columns; central rose window over bowed porch projection with blind arcade of 5 round arches and moulded parapet; flanking bays are blind. There is a round-arched doorway in each of the returns of the central bay and a truncated rose window above. Adjoining on the left is a C15 or C16 four-centred-arched doorway with square hoodmould. INTERIOR not inspected but has a gallery on painted columns (Pevsner). SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: original iron railings have spear-headed shafts and turned stanchions. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SW8244744479
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377493
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lemon Street and its Neighbourhood, (1980)
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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