CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242329
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242329
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Widecombe in the Moor
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX 70948 73200

Details

WIDECOMBE-IN- LEUSDON SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/234 Church of St John the Baptist -

- II

Parish church, originally a chapel-of-ease of Widecombe. 1863 by J W Rowell of Newton Abbot, architect to the Palk estate. Squared granite rubble with details in limestone, probably Bath stone. Slated roof. Nave, chancel, south porch, south tower attached to junction of nave and chancel. Designed in a "geometrical decorated style". Side-walls of nave have 2-light windows with pointed arches, the lights with trefoiled heads and a quatrefoil in the head of the window. Chancel has trefoiled lancet windows. East and west windows have trefoil-headed lights, 3 on the east and 4 on the west, with 3 quatrefoils in the heads of the windows. 2-stage tower with flanking buttresses at the base. In south face a clock under a triangular stone canopy. Belfry has paired, trefoil-headed lancets in each face. Thin bracketed cornice above, finished with a parapet. Interior is very simple. Pointed, double-chamfered chancel arch of alternating limestone and granite blocks. Carved limestone pulpit with grey marble balusters. Octagonal limestone font with pink marble shaft. Carved wood reredos of circa 1907. 4 stained glass windows, 2 of them of circa 1879 and 1915; a third is inscribed with the name A A Orr, Harrow, 1912, and the initials A A O appear on the window of circa 1915. Built and endowed by Mrs C R Larpent "in lieu of the long ruined chapel of St Leonard, at Spitchwick". Sources: information from the C19 Devon Churches Research Group. White's Directory of Devonshire, 1878, p.849. R Dymond, ed., Widecombe-in-the-Moor, 1876, p.21.

Listing NGR: SX7094873200

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dymond, R, Widecombe in the Moor, (1876), 21
'Whites Directory' in Whites Directory, (1878), 849

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