Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BOXBUSH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211330
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BOXBUSH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211330
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BOXBUSH ROAD
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, BOXBUSH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coleford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 57353 10740
Details
SO 51 SE COLEFORD BOXBUSH ROAD
(south side)
4/3
Church of St. John
II
Large parish church. 1880 F.S. Waller, and 1885 chancel and
transepts S. Gambier-Parry. Rock face rubble stone brought to
courses with ashlar dressings, tiled roof with double.gables on
both transepts. Latin cross with apsed east end. 4-bay nave
with tall 2-light windows with plate tracery, buttresses between
with drafted margins. Angle buttresses to transepts. Gabled
porch to north west end. West end has two 3-light windows with
geometrical tracery.
Interior: complex steep timber strutted collar roof on stone
corbels with wind bracing with elaborately decorated timber work
rood over chancel. Oak reredos carved as 1914-18 War memorial by
Sir Charles Nicholson. Also fine C20 oak lectern and pulpit and
screen to North transept. Stained glass east window 1958 Francis
Stephens. Carved stone chancel screen and stone piscina to right
of reredos.
Listing NGR: SO5735310740
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 353694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/35485
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/88937
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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