Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229092
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1990
- 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:
- 1229092
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1990
- 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:
- Dudley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 91045 87580
Details
1. 5106 HIGH STREET SO 98 NW 6/198 Brockmoor Church of St John II 2. Commissioners' Church. 1844-5, by Thomas Smith. Plum brick with yellow brick dressings; stone-coped shallow-pitched gabled Welsh slate roofs with carved faces to kneelers. Cruciform plan with vestry north of short chancel, extruded turrets in west angles of transepts and west porch. Neo-Norman style. All bays recessed and articulated by yellow brick pilaster buttresses with corbels to frieze beneath blocking course. One- bay chancel has 3 graduated lancets with waterleaf capitals to engaged shafts. Two-bay transepts:lancets have hood moulds with head stops over engaged shafts to waterleaf capitals and chevron arches; north and south gables have 3 plain graduated lancets. Nave has four-bay north&south elevations with similar lancet windowsand carved heads to chevron cornice; west gable has cornice continued as frieze and bellcote set on projecting bay flanked by similar lancets and with similar surround to doorway set in gabled porch. Interior: plastered walls; chancel has coffered ceiling, engaged shafts to fine late C19 stained-glass window, panelled dado and chamfered chancel arch set on engaged shafts with scalloped capitals; similar arches to transepts; plain pitch-pine pews; octagonal font with foliate capitals to marble shafts; roof trusses all have 3 central posts concealing wrought-iron tie bolts. A good example of a Neo-Norman Commissioners Church. (Buildings of England: Staffordshire, p.80).
Listing NGR: SO9104587580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 80
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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