Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, DONCASTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286668
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, DONCASTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286668
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, DONCASTER 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, DONCASTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Hooton Roberts
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 48403 97066
Details
The entry for the following shall be upgraded from Grade II to Grade II* (star):
SK 49 NE HOOTON ROBERTS DONCASTER ROAD (North-West Side)
6/11 Church of 29.3.68 St. John the Baptist
GV
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SK49NE HOOTON ROBERTS DONCASTER ROAD (north-west side)
6/11 Church of 29.3.68 St. John the Baptist
GV II
Church. C12 core, rebuilt C15, extensive C19 restoration. Sandstone: early work irregular rubble, C15 work ashlar. Slate roofs. West tower, small nave with partial aisle to south and lean-to porch in angle with nave, chancel with south chapel. Tower: Perpendicular. Chamfered plinth and moulded band to tall lower stage. 3-light west window beneath depressed, 4-centred arch. Pointed arch to door of south-east vice. Iron-faced clock. 2-light belfry openings. Renewed embattled parapet with crocketted pinnacles. Weathervane. Nave: irregular rubble heightened in ashlar. Diagonal offset buttresses to west end. Square-headed windows with hoodmoulds to aisle and north side. Aisle: chamfered plinth; 3-light window; chamfered eaves band; kneelers and gable coping. Deeply-coursed stonework to porch, round- arched south doorway. North wall: two 3-light windows with blocked doorway to west; lancet and large offset buttress to east. Rebuilt gable with kneelers, copings and cross. Chancel: lower, embattled with limestone merlons. East window: restored, 3-lights beneath round arch. Lancet to north wall. South chapel: restored, pointed 2-light window. Embattled.
Interior: pointed south doorway with old oak door. Double-chamfered, pointed-arch to aisle. Chancel arch: restored round arch on semicircular responds with crocketted capitals. Arch to south chapel similar with quarter-mould and chamfer, unrestored. Good 1701 wall monument on north wall beneath tower. Stained glass: figure of an Archbishop in lancet at east end of nave north wall, C13 or early C14, restored. The First Earl of Strafford (executed 1641), his widow and daughter thought to have been buried beneath the chancel.
Listing NGR: SK4840397066
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335521
- 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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