Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224827
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224827
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wroxall
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 55078 79916
Details
766/6/109 HIGH STREET
15-JUL-76 WROXALL
CHURCH OF ST JOHN
(Formerly listed as:
HIGH STREET
WROXALL
ST JOHN'S CHURCH)
II
Nave and chancel of 1876-7 by T R Saunders of Ventnor in Early English style. Tower erected in 1911 in Gothic style. Some furnishings of 1911.
MATERIALS: Coursed stone rubble with slate roofs, except for shingled roof of tower.
PLAN: Four bay nave, two bay chancel and south west tower.
EXTERIOR: South west tower of three stages with pyramidal roof with lucarnes surmounted by a metal weathervane. Clock face to upper stage and triple lancets to bell stage with drip-mould. Arched doorcase with colonnettes and drip-mould. The west gable end has a triple lancet window, the central light higher with colonnettes and ballflower corbels and end buttresses. The north and south sides of the nave have arched windows with paired lancets and oval lights above and the bays are divided by buttresses. The chancel east window has a triple lancet window, the central light higher, with drip-moulds and ballflower corbels, and offset corner buttresses. The north and south walls of the chancel are obscured by later stone additions.
INTERIOR: the nave has a kingpost roof with arch braces supported on stone corbels. The chancel arch has paired colonnettes. The chancel has a wooden ribbed barrel-vaulted roof supported on stone corbels and encaustic tiled floor.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Wooden reredos of 1898 with trefoiled painted panels and wooden panelling. 1911 east window depicting the Assumption. Side windows by Heaton, Butler and Baine. Window at west end by Lawrence Lee, 1952. Small octagonal stone font. Wooden pews, pulpit, and choir stalls.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Stone war memorial to the south west of the tower. It comprises a cross mounted on a tapering octagonal shaft with gabled projection with trefoil panels near the top, set on a square plinth with curved top, on which the names of the fallen are inscribed. It has three steps.
HISTORY: The south-west tower was erected by public subscription in 1911 to house the clock presented to the parish by a Crimean veteran, Henry Charles Millett, R.N.
SOURCES
Lloyd, D and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Isle of Wight (2006), 303.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION
The Church of St John the Evangelist, Wroxall, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural Design: nave and chancel were designed in coursed stone rubble by local architect T R Saunders of Ventnor with a landmark south-west tower of 1911 added in matching style and materials.
* Interior Interest: original fittings including stained glass by the firm of Heaton, Butler and Bayne.
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, 25 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420983
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 25 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21892
War Memorials Online, accessed 25 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/102198
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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