Church of St John
Church of St. John, Green Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294770
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. John, Green Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294770
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. John, Green Lane
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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.
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, Green Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wall
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 09880 06676
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 April 2026 to amend details in the description, add source and to reformat text to current standards
SK 00 NE
5/113
WALL C.P.
GREEN LANE (west side)
Church of St. John
II
Parish church of 1839-1843. A contemporary newspaper article attributes the building to Thomas Johnson of Lichfield, though it has also been attributed to Scott and Moffat. Pale yellow chisel finished sandstone; tiled roofs on corbelled eaves with verge parapets. West steeple, nave and chancel. Steeple: a square tower of approximately three stages on a plinth with two stage diagonal buttresses is chamfered in at the last stage to form an octagonal base for the short spire; single stage of small lucarnes and a small slit trefoil-headed window over the pointed west door. Nave: of four bays on plinth and divided by two stage buttresses; two-light, square-headed trefoil-light windows to each bay. Chancel: lower than nave of similar details and of one short bay; three-light, labelled pointed, Perpendicular-style window with panel tracery.
Interior: plain-finished, plastered nave; single hammer beam and arch braced roof with double purlins and exposed rafters. Narrow, pointed chancel arch. Reading desk: fretted brasswork. Font: stone, octagonal, on stand. The church is skilfully set at the top of a rise making an attractive and prominent feature. B.O.E., p.291.
Listing NGR: SK0988006676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 272729
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 291
Other
'Consecration of Wall Church’, The Wolverhampton Chronicle, 17 May 1843, p. 3
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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