Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306308
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306308
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURCH 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 EVANGELIST, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Twinstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86119 36697
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/10/2012
TL 83 NE
5/115
21.6.62
TWINSTEAD
CHURCH ROAD
(NORTH SIDE)
Church of St. John The Evangelist
GV
II*
Church. 1859/60, by Charles Woodyer. Red brick with stone dressings and tracery;
gabled plain tile roofs. Plan of chancel with organ chamber and vestry to north and
nave with south west porch and west bellcote. Middle pointed style. Offset
buttresses, with stone gablets to chancel; church encircled by band of black and
white polychrome brick, with frieze of white trefoiled panels. Chancel: 3-light east
window with octofoil light; south wall has 2 trefoiled lancets and unusual
triangular - shaped architrave framing multi-foiled round window; north wall has
lean-to and gabled roofs to organ chamber and vestry, which have Caermarvon-arched doorway,
Middle Pointed and quatrefoil windows. Nave has 4-light windows, all with distinctive
cusping to tracery. Porch has lateral buttresses flanking pointed moulded arch with
chamfered outer order and engaged columns; studded door set in early C14 style
pointed moulded arch. West elevation: offset buttresses to paired colonettes
supporting chamfered pointed arch, framing unusual triangular - shaped window with
cusped tracery, continued to gabled bellcote with arched bell opening; C18
weathervane; Interior: waggon roof with moulded ribs to chancel and arch-braced
roof with curved wind braces and upper king posts to nave. Floors of mid C19 glazed
coloured tiles. Nave and chancel walls are lavishly executed in structural polychromy
in red, white and black; nave walls have trellising above strong pattern of blind
arcading. Chancel has small piscina, wrought-iron openwork to altar rail and
excellent mid C19 stained glass by Hardman; triple chancel arch of limestone with
quatrefoil shafts and moulded capitals. Octagonal limestone font with black marble
band, supported on central compound pier encircled by open arcade
supported on small red marble shafts; unusual cover with dove
counterweight to elaborate wrought-iron lifting frame. Memorials: mid/late C19
memorial brasses and tablets; early C17 brass effigies to Wyncoll family in north
wall of nave. (RCHM 1; Buildings of England).
Listing NGR: TL8611936697
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115836
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1954)
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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