Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284888
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-03-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/10149/18
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter Hubbard. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284888
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grimstead
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 21138 26596
Details
SU 22 NW GRIMSTEAD CHURCH STREET (east side)
6/87 Church of St. John
23/3/60
GV II*
Anglican church. C13 to C18. Flint with ashlar quoins, west tower is English bond brick, plain tiled roof. Nave with north aisle, chancel, added south chapel and vestry, west tower. West tower of C18 has pointed arch over west door, two arrow slits to north, south and west sides of upper stage, pyramidal tiled roof. South wall of vestry and chapel has one blocked pointed-arched door with hollow chamfer, now containing window with wooden Y-tracery, to right are two chamfered square-headed windows. East window with wooden Y-tracery, to right are two chamfered square-headed windows. East window of south chapel is pointed with double-chamfered moulding and wooden Y-tracery. Chancel has two round-arched chamfered windows to south side and group of three stepped cusped lancets to east, east window of north aisle has 2-light square- headed C16 window. North aisle has one 2-light square-headed C16 window and blocked pointed door to west, with inserted window with wooden Y-tracery. West end of north aisle has 2-light square- headed C16 window. Interior; 2-bay nave has double-chamfered pointed north arcade on cylindrical columns of early C13; voussoirs are alternate pink and grey stones. Unusual roof trusses nave arch-braced tie-beams with central carved bosses, on corbels, with curved principals which bow-out to take purlins. Pointed double-chamfered arch with attached column either side leads to south chapel of 1 bay, outshut roof has tie-bean with braces to principals. Chancel arch is plain double-chamfered pointed arch. One-bay chancel has same roof as nave and north aisle. North side chapel contains organ, double- chamfered round arch on columns leads to it from chancel. Trefoil- headed piscina on south side of chancel. Fittings: Fine Jacobean wooden pulpit with flat arabesque carving. Royal Arms of Queen Anne on south wall on nave. Good classical style wall tablet in limestone and slate is memorial to William Hubbard died 1792, north wall of chancel. Cylindrical limestone font of C13. East window has signed stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne of London, 1900. (N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975.)
Listing NGR: SU2113826596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319467
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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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