Church of St John the Baptist
Church of St John the Baptist, Parvis Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264419
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St John the Baptist, Parvis Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264419
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St John the Baptist, Parvis 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 Baptist, Parvis Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Woking (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 04413 60981
Details
TQ 06SW
2/107
BOROUGH OF WOKING
WEST BYFLEET
PARVIS ROAD
Church of St John the Baptist
II
Church. 1910 by W.D Caröe. Knapped flint with random stone blocks, stone dressings; plain tiled roof with wood shingled bell turret and broach spire to west end.
Cruciform plan with nave and aisles, transepts and chancel; C20 vestry/church hall to north east corner. Narthex to west end with two doors on deep reveals to outer bays, most windows under four centre hoods with panelled tracery; east window semicircular and filled with quadrofoil tracery. Foundation stone of 1910 and inscribed with the name of the architect in a buttress at the east end.
Interior: five bay nave arcade on piers of cruciform section; crenallations and trefoil carvings to the top of the arcade. Barrel vaulted nave with stone vaulted aisles, panelled vaults to the north chancel chapel and chancel. Early C20 fittings to the chancel, including reredos. Double sedelia with rib vaults to niches and ogee arched piscina to south chancel wall. Hexagonal stone font.
Listing NGR: TQ 0441360981
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427835
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 126
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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