Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1248077
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1248077
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skilgate
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 98689 27235
Details
SS92NE SKILGATE CP SKILGATE VILLAGE
10/10 Church of St John (formerly listed as Church of St John the Baptist) 6.4.59
G II*
Parish church. Tower probably C14, tower arch and body of church rebuilt 1872, possibly incorporating some original masonry, architect unknown, builders How of Brompton Regis, choir stalls added and chancel floor relaid 1933, minor restoration 1972 when electricity installed. Random rubble local stone, flat bedded in tower, Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges, decorative ridge tiles. West tower, 2-bay nave and north aisle, south porch, chancel and vestry. Crenellated 2-stage tower, unbuttressed west end, large stepped buttresses at junction with nave rising to just below bell-openings, louvred lancet bell-openinqs, voussoirs of former west window cutting string courses, inserted C19 west window below, hoodmould with face terminals as on all other window openings, no west door; south front gabled single storey porch, moulded arch opening, detached piece of unidentified medieval stonework in porch, moulded arched inner doorway with square hole cut in left jamb, raised and fielded panel door, 3-light window to right, gabled top to stepped buttress at junction with chancel, two 2-light windows south front of chancel, 3-light east window, chamfered arched doorway to vestry, 2 lancets on north front, two 2-light windows to north aisle, 2-light window west end. Interior: rendered. C19 pointed arches resting on corbels to tower and chancel; scissor truss roofs to nave and chancel, latter with wall plate, monopitch roof to north aisle. C19 fittings including brass lectern with sconces, possibly by Bardman of Birmingham. (Allen, Exmoor Churches, 1974; Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: SS9868927235
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429581
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Allen, NV, The Churches and Chapels of Exmoor, (1974)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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