Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248929
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- 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:
- 1248929
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- 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:
- Tatworth and Forton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 32691 05791
Details
ST3205 TATWORTH AND FORTON CP TATWORTH
12/105 Church of St John
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GV II
Chapelry, now parish church, 1851, vestry extended with church rooms late C20 (not of special interest). Architect John Pinch of Bath, builder Davis of Langport. Early English style. Random rubble chert and local stone, stepped buttresses of chert stone to every bay, Ham stone dressings, plinth slate roofs, coped verges. Five bay aisless nave, chancel, organ bay opening into vestry with church roots extension, Stone pyramid roofed octagonal drop finial, 5 lancet windows below; all other windows with hood- moulds and face terminals, south front one lancet left and 3 right of single storey gabled porch, pointed arch opening with double chaafer, squared and coursed stone walls with stole benches inset pointed arch doorway, door with decorative hinge, chancel 2-light window south front, 3-light east window, vestry with 2-liqht window and chimney at junction with chancel, C20 building abutting, west front of vestry shouldered doorway approached by flight of 3 steps, 5 lancets on north front. Interior rendered. Pointed, chamfered chancel arch with dwarf stone walls and arcade with marble columns facing nave. Ceiled and boarded barrel vault in chancel, arch braced king post roof carried on carved corbels in nave. West end gallery, carried on 2 painted wooden columns with brackets springing from entablature, double flight of stairs centre of west wall. Marble tesserie to sanctuary, Minton tiles in chancel. Reredos of carved wood designed and executed by Henry Stuart King, Vicar, 1901. Painted wooden Gothlc style pulpit on stone base with marble columns approached by flight if stone steps. Octagonal font of Portland stone. Oil painting on canvas of The Man of Sorrows. Some stained glass; east end dated 1905, south chancel window 1962. The ecclesiastical parish was forged in 1866, (Pevsner, N. Buildings of England, South and West Somerset,1958).
Listing NGR: ST3269105791
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430755
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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