Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, EXETER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244521
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, EXETER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244521
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, EXETER 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 THE EVANGELIST, EXETER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 48742 54429
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4854 EXETER STREET, Plymouth 740-1/58/367 (South side) 14/10/91 Church of St John the Evangelist (Formerly Listed as: SUTTON-ON-PLYM EXETER STREET Church of St John the Evangelist)
II
Anglican church. 1851-5 by B Ferrey; N Lady Chapel 1883, rebuilt 1955. Roughly coursed and squared limestone with ashlar dressings; dry slate roofs with coped gable ends. STYLE: Early Pointed. PLAN: nave, N and S aisles, Lady Chapel annexe to N aisle, N and W porches, tower to E end of N aisle. EXTERIOR: corner angle buttresses; aisles with 2-light windows with plate tracery; chancel 4-light E window with sexfoil tracery; lancets to sides; 2-light end aisle windows with bar tracery and hoodmoulds, all windows cusped. Pointed-arched moulded doorways, E porch doorway with head stops to hoodmoulds and stepped lancets over; cusped rose window above E gable of nave. Lady Chapel has lancets to N wall and cusped W rose window. 3-stage tower has weathered corner buttresses and louvred 2-light traceried windows with hoodmoulds; broach spire with lucarnes springing from narrower upper stage; moulded pointed arched N doorway. INTERIOR: plastered walls and open timber scissor-truss roofs; tall moulded chancel arch without capitals; 5-bay arcades with octagonal piers. FITTINGS: font of polished limestone; high altar reredos of 1869 with carved figures; former chancel screen of ironwork on wooden traceried base, now forms screen to Lady Chapel; octagonal pulpit of 1869 with top panel open trefoils painted c1900 in Quattrocento style; octagonal font in squat early English style with carved cover by Pinwell sisters; S chapel screen of 1914 with triptych painted in quattrocento style; screen between chancel and vestry has bar tracery to glazed arcade above bench. STAINED GLASS: E window with evangelists 1865 by Hardman; 3 x S aisle windows of 1867-70 and former E window of 1862 now in S aisle. HISTORY: Ferrey was a pupil of AWN Pugin. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 643-4; Power WJ: A Layman's View of Some Plymouth Churches: 1977-: 55).
Listing NGR: SX4874254429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 643-644
Power, W J, A Laymans View of Some Plymouth Churches, (1977), 55
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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