Church of St John the Evangelist (Church of England)
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), A41
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249625
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist (Church of England)
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), A41
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249625
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist (Church of England)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), A41
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), LONDON ROAD
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 (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), A41
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berkhamsted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01607 06520
Details
1. LONDON ROAD (A41) 839 (North side) TL 00 NW Broadway Church of St. John the 4/225 Evangelist, Bourne End (C of E) II
2. Parish Church. 1854 by G G Scott for Cannon Sir John Hobart Culme Seymour as a chapel of ease. (Separate parish 1909). Uncoursed knapped flint with limestone dressings. Steep pitched roofs of scalloped red tiles. Timber framed S porch on flint and stone sills. A small Gothic Revival Dec church of nave and polygonal ended chancel under one roof, gabled S porch balanced by gabled vestry on N side of nave. Slender square shingled fleche set diagonally over the E end of the nave. Wrought iron crosses on fleche, porch and chancel. Stone W gable parapet with cross gabled apex stone. Tall 2-light W window with top light and hood mould. 3 trefoil-headed lancets on S wall of nave, 2-light Dec windows with quatrefoil in head on each facet of chancel. Large buttresses mark start of chancel with battered plinth and chamfered string courses at sill and eaves. Steep roofed 2-bay arch-braces wooden porch with open arcaded sides and trefoil headed entrance under moulded wavy bargeboard. 2-centred arched stone S doorway in 2 continuous chamfered orders. Double doors with large foliate wrought iron hinge plates. Large copper lamp on iron bracket on front of porch. Apse windows by Alfred Bell (his first windows) made by Powells in 1854 (Pevsner (1977)107). Scissor-rafter open timbered nave roof with ashlar pieces. Chancel marked by low screen with lectern attached, having octagonal wooden base and pierced tracery under a heavy arch-braced collar truss with king post, carried on EE attached stone wall shafts. Similar ringed marble shafts at sacristy angles with oak altar rail on bracketed brass supports. Chancel and sacristy walls and roofs have polychrome fresco painted decoration designed by Charles Rew architect of Berkhamsted and executed by David Bell of Davidson and Bell dated 1891. Semi-dome in apse has Christ in majesty. Roof of chancel ceiled between scissor braces with painted motif decoration between and on rafters, on walls and window mullions. Large carved wooden altar and tall tabernacle work reredos with figures of Christ in a vesica, Mary his mother, and St. John. Choir stalls and pews appear to be part of original design. Narrow pointed doorway with roll moulding and coffered door leads to small vestry with gothic corner fireplace, 2-light E window and scissor-braced rafter open timber roof with ashlar pieces. Unusual bowl shaped stone font with foliate base and octagonal step. 4 small roundels of evangelists in a high relief around bowl with sunk lettering around rim, and wooden cover. (Kelly (1914)191: VCH (1908)246: Pevsner (1977)107).
Listing NGR: TL0160706520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 246
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 107
Kellys Directory in Hertfordshire, (1914), 191
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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