Church of St John Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, FRENCHAY COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233061
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, FRENCHAY COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233061
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST, FRENCHAY COMMON
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 BAPTIST, FRENCHAY COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63949 77477
Details
ST 67 NW WINTERBOURNE FRENCHAY COMMON (south side), Frenchay 3/50 3.3.61 Church of St. John Baptist G.V. II Anglican Parish Church. 1834 by H. Rumley, tower restored 1923 by Hartland Thomas. Rubble, freestone, slate roof. West tower, galleried nave, chancel, north porch, south vestry. 2 stage tower with heavy, weathered diagonal buttresses, heavily moulded pointed door with angel corbels, 2 light Decorated window above, clock under label, single lights to side with cusped oculus at top, battlemented parapet, octagonal spire; 5-bay nave, battlemented, tall buttresses, windows, plain Y-tracery below, Decorated above; gabled and buttressed north porch; narrower gabled chancel has 4-light Decorated east window. Interior: galleried, tall wave and shaft piers rise to almost round arches and then to ribbed plaster vaults, moulded chancel arch and plaster vaulted sanctuary. (Source: D. Verey "Buildings of England : Gloucestershire : The Vale and The Forest of Dean" 1970).
Listing NGR: ST6394977477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408497
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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