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:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN

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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

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Legacy System number:: 396211
Legacy System:: LBS

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Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 199

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.