Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211689
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211689
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Seaborough
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43004 05949
Details
SEABOROUGH SEABOROUGH VILLAGE
ST 40 NW
11.11.66
1/239 CHURCH OF ST JOHN
GV II
Parish Church. Mainly rebuilt 1882 by Crickmay. North chapel, dated
1729. Medieval window material incorporated. Nave and chancel, north
chapel, south porch. Dressed stone walls. Slate roof with tile cresting.
Stone gable-copings. Stone crosses at east gable end, and head of bell-
cote. One storey. 5 windows. South elevation: 3-light stone mullion
windows, cusped, with square head over. 2-lighter with a pointed cusped
head and quatrefoil in a pointed head over. Dressed stone voussoirs.
Buttresses: divide nave from chancel, with 2 set-offs, at corner of chancel
similarly. South porch, rubble base and stone above. Pitched gable with
slate and stone slate roof. Stone gable-coping. Stone bell-cote on west
gable, with 2 cinquefoiled arches, with labels over. One small trefoil-
cusped light. Stone gable-coping and cross over. Two C15 windows re-used:
in nave north wall, and in the west wall. North chapel, dated 1729, in
tablet over window. Ashlar with rusticated stone quoins. Stone gable-
coping. 3-light, C18 stone mullion window with round octofoil in head.
Square stone label, with stone label-stops. Interior: nave and chancel
differentiated by coupled short responds carried on single foliage bases.
Roof: wooden barrel-vault, compartmented. Stained glass in north chapel
window, early C20. Monuments: (1) Tapering slab with small stone effigy
of a Knight in armour, C13. (2) Marble tablet with corbel-cartouche,
shell-cornice and bust on plinth, to Adam Martin, 1738-9.
Source: RCHM Dorset I, p199(1).
Listing NGR: ST4300405949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396211
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 199
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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