HOUSE, FORMERLY CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248850
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: HOUSE, FORMERLY CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: HOUSE, FORMERLY CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248850
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: HOUSE, FORMERLY CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: HOUSE, FORMERLY CHURCH OF ST JOHN 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HOUSE, FORMERLY CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lovington
National Grid Reference:: ST5818130847

Details

ST53SE 1/67

LOVINGTON CP WHEATHILL

House, formerly Church of St John Baptist

24.3.61

GV II

Former Anglican Parish Church, now house. C13 origins, converted in 1970s. Local grey lias stone cut and squared with Doulting stone dressings; Welsh slate roof over stone slate base courses between coped gables, cross finial to east, base only of bell turret formerly with two bells to west; stone chimney stack. Single-cell plan of 5 bays, with no external definition of nave and chancel. South elevation has 4 single light cusped windows in ogee-mould recesses, without labels; to bay 2 a projecting gabled porch with semi-circular arched doorway having boarded door with inserted light, and inside a chamfered pointed arched doorway, with small canopied statue niche in east wall; between bays 4 and 5 a narrow moulded pointed arched doorway, above which is a modern 2-light window in a gabled dormer. West wall has large pointed arch with curtain walling and French doors as infill; the east window of 3 lancets with trifle arched label having plain stops, flanked by two small C20 circular windows. North wall has similar details to south, less the porch. Interior not inspected. but survival of ribbed barrel vault ceiling noted. The modification of the church to a house has been effected without seriously altering the special interest of the building externally.

Listing NGR: ST5818130847

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 430605
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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