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
