Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, BIGBY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204035
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, BIGBY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204035
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Sept-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, BIGBY STREET
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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 EVANGELIST, BIGBY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brigg
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 00054 07191
Details
712/2/54 BIGBY STREET 06-AUG-76 (North side) CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (Formerly listed as: BIGBY STREET PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN)
II Built 1841-3 by W A Nicholson, some alterations in 1883 by W White.
MATERIALS: Small, whitish-grey stones cut and laid brick fashion. Tiled roofs.
PLAN: Aisled nave and chancel, SE porch tower, N porch.
EXTERIOR: The church is tightly hemmed in externally by other buildings. Early English in style, it has paired lancet windows with detached shafts. The W window is unusually high to accommodate the neighbouring buildings, and there is a small E lancet. The tall, buttressed tower is of four stages and has a S door with a very shallow, gabled porch and lancets set within blind arcading in the bell stage. Corner pinnacles on the tower and at the W end.
INTERIOR: The arcades have octagonal piers and double chamfered arches. There is one bay of sexpartite vaulting, probably plaster, in the chancel.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Very plain C19 nave benches and choir stalls with simple poppy heads. Some C19 and early C20 glass.
HISTORY: A church was first built at Brigg in 1699, which until then had been a hamlet served by the parish church at Wrawby. This Classical church was demolished and replaced by the present church in 1841-3, which was considerably larger than its predecessor. It was designed in the Early English style then fashionable by W A Nicholson (1803-53 of Lincoln). It became an independent parish in 1872, and was refurnished in 1883 by the noted Victorian church architect William White.
SOURCES: Pevsner, N., Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), 185
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St John, Brigg, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Church of 1841-3 by W A Nicholson in an attractive Early English style. * Restored and altered in 1883 by William White.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165439
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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