CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1241510
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1241510
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:: Wonersh
National Grid Reference:: TQ 01464 45098

Details

TQ 04NW WONERSH C.P. THE STREET (South Side)

1/402 Church of St. John 9/3/60 the Baptist

GV II*

Church. Possible pre-conquest core with C12 tower, embattled in 1751, C13 chancel, C15 north chapel, south side of nave and south transept chapel rebuilt in 1793 by Lord Grantley in "Meeting House style" after a fire. Church restored in 1901 when the east end was rebuilt by Sir Charles Nicholson. Ironstone rubble with chalk conglomerate, Bargate rubble with hard chalk/clunch dressings and Caen stone inside the chancel and north chapel. Sandstone upper stages to tower with brick plat bands and angle quoins. Red and blue brick on south, plain tiled roofs. Nave with narthex to west, transeptal chapel to south side, chancel to east. Vestry Chapel to north and tower on north side. Three stage tower, offset slightly, on tall ground floor stage with plat bands over first and second stages. Round arched brick dressed louvred openings to each face of top stage, one narrow rectangular opening in each face of middle stage and lancet window to lower stage on north stage. Lancet window to north nave wall. C20 pantiled narthex to west end, two round-headed windows over on west under gauged brick heads, brick dentil eaves above on gable. Buttresses alternate with single light windows; round arched openings to north and south ends, that to south now blocked. Three round-arched leaded windows on south side of nave, under gauged brick heads. Brick dentilled eaves and hipped roof to south transept. One round arched leaded window on chapel over door under herringbone brick over door. East window early C20 in Decorated style with round arched window on east side of south chapel. Perpendicular style fenestration on north vestry with panelled double doors to west end under fanlight. Interior:- Remains of old nave and aisle shows in roofs, now all under one roof employing re-used timber. Billeted wall plates to chancel roof. Flat panelled roof on north chapel. Arched entrance to south side of north chapel giving access to chancel, 4-centred arched entrance to west, both on round piers. Chancel walls bear evidence of blocked windows. Late C12 arched entrance from tower into nave. Fittings - triple C20 sedelia to south side of chancel, piscina and aumbry adjacent. Image niche on south wall of chapel with cinquefoil head. C15 rood loft door. Old screen (V.C.H.) now early C20 remodelled by A. K. Nicholson in Jacobethan style. Massive tub font on moulded plinth with thick cable moulding to stem. Elaborate columned and open font cover. Panelled C20 pulpit. Good collection of C18 hatchments. Monuments - Lovall Memorial on west wall - Elizabethan with Guilloche moulding on cornice, flanking Cherub's heads, central vase on apron with vine festoon and grape bunches. Inscription panel now blank. Corinthian capitals of flanking pilasters remain, although the shafts are now gone.

V.C.H. SURREY (1967 ed) Vol. III pp.121-7 PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) pp. 536-7.

Listing NGR: TQ0146445098

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Legacy System number:: 440373
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 536-7
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 121-7

Legal

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