Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229368
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229368
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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 BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Guilden Sutton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 44890 68181
Details
SJ 46 NW GUILDEN SUTTON C.P. CHURCH LANE (West Side)
5/10 Church of St John the Baptist.
1/6/1967
GV II
Church: 1815 (Pevsner and Hubbard), but nave has C16 work. English garden wall bond orange brick with lines of vertical timbers and wall plate visible in nave. Welsh slate roof. 5-bay nave and chancel in one range, south porch and octagonal louvred bellcote. Dentil brick cornice. Windows of nave and chancel are simple and have semi-circular brick heads. Gabled porch has a pair of half-glazed doors. East window, lancet shaped with 2 wooden mullions. Interior: Very plain with raised chancel and wooden chancel screen. Partly exposed kingpost trusses with diagonal braces, all heavily cusped. Circular stone front dated 1635 and doorway with twisted balusters dated 1698. Painted memorial plaque to Whitehead family, probably by Randle Holme III.
The former chancel blew down in 1802 and it is reported that Sir J T Stanley of Alderley rebuilt the church by 1810 when he sold the living. Ormerod G, History of Cheshire, 1819.
Listing NGR: SJ4489068181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404196
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
Ormerod, G, History of Cheshire, (1819)
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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