Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299647
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299647
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHAPEL 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, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Lawford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47245 76395
Details
LONG LAWFORD CHAPEL STREET SP47NE (East side) 3/33 Church of St. John 06/10/60
- II
Church; built as a chapel of ease. Dated 1839. Designed by William Walker. Erected for John Caldecott of Holbrook Grange. Flemish bond brick with remains of cement wash and red brick plinth, and artificial stone dressings. Roof of shaped slates has coped gable parapets. Short chancel, nave, north porch, south vestry. Simple Gothic Revival lancet style. One-bay chancel, 4-bay nave. Splayed plinth, moulded sill course and hood moulds throughout. Angle and other buttresses; angle buttresses have chamfered and gableted pinnacles with moulded finial. Chancel and similar west projection have stepped lancets. Roundel above has blind quatrefoil with coat of arms to east, and date to west. Small artificial stone octagonal west turret with foliage corbel at apex of gable. Blind gablets and moulded finial. Porch has diagonal buttresses and painted plank door. Nave has 3 windows to north and south. Small vestry has south lancet, and later lean-to. Interior has pulpit, pews and other fittings of grained wood with simple lancet detail. Font of 1886 has four granite columns and octagonal basin. Stained glass panels of roundels and coat of arms, surrounded by clear glass, in east window. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol. VI, p.187; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.344; Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire, 1894, p.121).
Listing NGR: SP4724576395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308818
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1951)
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 344
Kellys Directory in Warwickshire, (1894), 121
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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