Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312793
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312793
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE
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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Farrington Gurney
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63511 55716
Details
ST 65 NW FARRINGTON GURNEY CHURCH LANE (north side)
6/61 Church of St. John the Baptist 21.9.60 II
Anglican parish church. 1843-5 by John Pinch junior. Squared and coursed lias with freestone dressings, ashlar buttresses,stone tile roof to nave, C20 plain tile roofs to chancel and aisles. Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west tower. Norman Revival style replacing earlier church. 4 bay nave with embattled billet corbel table and pilaster buttresses; single light windows with recessed arched surrounds. Chancel has tall round-headed windows with blind round-headed arcading at their bases. Aisles have nook shafts and cushion capitals to windows. Tower of 4 stages with setback buttresses and plain parapet. West doorway of 2 orders with nook shafts and cushion capitals; studded plank 2-leaf door. Above doorway a reset medieval figure of God the Father holding a crucifixion in his hands. Single light window to 2nd stage, nebule frieze above, further traceried roundel and bell stage with 2-light openings. Bracketted cornice below parapet. Interior. 4 bay nave arcades with circular piers and scalloped capitals. Hammerbeam roof to nave, plank roofs to aisles, open rafter roof to chancel. West gallery. Fittings. Neo-Norman font and pulpit. Reset eroded stone coat of arms above west gallery. Late C19 stained glass throughout. Mogg family monuments in chancel: earliest, 1641 to Richard Mogg. (Pevsner, Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST6351155716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32801
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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