Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BOURNEMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1305220
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BOURNEMOUTH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1305220
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, BOURNEMOUTH 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, BOURNEMOUTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Spetisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 90941 02924
Details
SPETISBURY ST 90 SW BOURNEMOUTH ROAD (West side)
8/85 Church of St John 14-7-55 GV I
Parish church, north arcade late C12 or early C13, west tower late C15 or early C16, north chapel 1868, remainder of church 1858, restoration of 1895. 1858 work by T H Wyatt. Flint with squared rubble and banded flint and rubble with ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs with stone copings. Plan: nave; chancel; west tower; north aisle and chapel; south porch, 3-stage tower with weathered strings, embattled parapet, diagonal buttresses to first stage and octagonal north vice. Chamfered, pointed west door. Single-light west window with pointed head. Paired belfry windows with pointed heads under square, stopped labels. North aisle has 2 and 3-light Perpendicular tracery windows under straight heads, some original, reset. East chancel window of 3 tracery lancets under common pointed head. North and south chancel walls have lancets and paired lancets. Pointed priest's door of 2 chamfered orders. 3-light Perpendicular south nave windows under square heads. Gabled porch with pointed arch of 2 chamfered orders and plate tracery windows. Inner door with pointed, moulded head. Internal features; 3 bay arcade of stilted segmental arches on cylindrical columns with moulded capitals; pointed tower arch of 3 chamfered orders dying into responds; early C17 polygonal pulpit with panelled sides having highly enriched decoration with Ionic capitals, beasts, cherub-heads, strapwork etc: Various monuments, notably a chest tomb to John Bowyer 1599 with strapwork enrichment over which is a heavy pediment with scrolled frieze supported on Ionic columns and half-columns; C19 and C20 glass; painted inscription to bell-ringers on painted panel in tower. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.III, p.242/3, no.1. Newman, J. and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Dorset 1972m p.394/5.)
Listing NGR: ST9094202924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103360
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 242-243
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 394-395
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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