Church of St John

CHURCH OF ST JOHN, LANCASTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271806
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1976
List Entry Name:
Church of St John
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, LANCASTER ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271806
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1976
List Entry Name:
Church of St John
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, LANCASTER ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, YORK ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, LANCASTER ROAD
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, YORK ROAD

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TG 52985 07172

Details

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SE YORK ROAD 839-1/16/200 (South side) 09/12/76 Church of St John

II

Church. 1857. By JH Hakewill, with later alterations. Flint with red brick and ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Comprising a nave, apsed chancel and south porch. 1859 south aisle added by AW Morant, nave extended west 1866, north aisle, transept and north chancel aisle 1878, south transept and vestry 1884 by Bottle & Olley. Restored 1989. EXTERIOR: 3 gables to west end, pierced by triple paired lancets to nave, double paired lancets to north aisle, a single paired lancet to south aisle. Paired lancets to north and south aisle flanks. 2 paired lancets to the transept facades under a foiled plate-tracery circle. South transept with a polygonal turret terminating in an open lantern under a pyramid roof, relocated in 1884. Apsed east end, the walls again with lancets. Set to the east but linked by a covered passage is the vestry: hexagonal, 2 lancets to each facet, pyramid roof with lantern. INTERIOR: hexagonal vestry with a boarded ceiling. Nave with 6-bay arcade of circular columns on waterholding bases. On north there are sea-weed capitals, on the south stiff-leaf capitals. Low pointed arches with red brick banding. Scissor-braced nave and aisle roofs, boarded to north aisle. Roll-moulded chancel and sanctuary arches. Sanctuary has clustered colonnettes to the lancet windows. Plain octagonal font on clustered keeled columns.

Listing NGR: TG5298507172

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
468659
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.

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