CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, UPPER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1266756
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, UPPER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1266756
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, UPPER ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, UPPER ROAD

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District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eastnor
National Grid Reference:: SO 73134 37227

Details

SO 73 NW; 4/38

EASTNOR CP, EASTNOR, UPPER ROAD (west side)

Church of St John the Baptist

18.11.52

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C12, altered C13 and C15; tower remodelled C14; restored and mostly rebuilt in 1852 by Sir G G Scott. Consists of west tower, nave and south porch, north aisle and organ space and north or Somers chapel and chancel. Ashlar, rubble and coursed squared rubble to the tower: plain tiled roofs.

West tower of three stages, diagonal buttresses and embattled parapet; the top is of a different stone and is unbuttressed; setback pyramidal roof, weathervane on ball finial; 3-light Perpendicular style west window and moulded west doorway; single round-headed lights to second stage and 2-light C14 style windows to bell chamber; square stair tower projects at north-east. Nave: two C19 Geometric style windows and buttresses with off-sets. Projecting, gabled, timber-framed porch has trefoil headed arcade on an ashlar base. Restored south doorway of one order of columns with trumpet-scallop capitals and a plain arch. Chancel: two fine C19 2-light windows in an early - mid C14 style with much ballflower ornament and under hoodmoulds with head stops; ball-flower ornamented wall plate; priests' door under large trefoil head, ornamented with fleurons and ballflower; 3-light Geometric style east window, also profuse with ballflower ornament. North aisle is plain with three narrow slit windows. Somers chapel: angle buttresses with gabled heads; three lancet windows divided by a transom, trefoil heads to lower part and a large trefoil light above, under a hoodmould with head stops; decorated band over:

INTERIOR: Three-bay arcade to north chapel has octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches; the east capital has trumpet-scallops. Double ware-moulded tower arch. Font and pulpit of 1852 in a heavy Gothic style, of carved freestone and marble shafts. Circular tub font in north aisle. Enriched Gothic style screen. Reredos of 1896, incorporating carved friezes and other parts of a monument from Siena. Glass: east window by Kempe; Somers chapel east window by Wilmhurst and Oliphant, 1884. Monuments. Tower: two designed by James Stuart and executed by Thomas Scheemakers; to Joseph Cocks died 1778, in brown and white marble, a sarcophagus with a profile in a roundel and putti above; and to Mary Cocks, died 1779, in marble, a seated woman by an urn, set against drapery, and with a putto at the right. Somers chapel: to first Earl Somers, died 1855, by Sir G G Scott, a freestone chest with religious scenes in trefoiled arcading, all set in depressed arched niche; to 3rd Earl, died 1883 by Sir J E Boehm, a grey marble chest tomb with a white marble recumbent effigy; marble tablets to John Cocks, died 1771, an urn in front of an obelisk; Edward Cocks, died 1782, by Thomas Scheemakers, a marble plaque with books, a cap and a lamb at the foot; Charles Cocks 1806. Rev John Fletcher, died 1797, also by Stuart and Scheemakers (Pevsner), stand- ing female figure by an urn and in front of an obelisk. A high quality but small and little known masterpiece by Scott at a cost of £1506 0s 3d.

Listing NGR: SO7313437226

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Legacy System number:: 152465
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963)

Legal

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