Church of Saint John
CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1315991
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1315991
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN, MAIN 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 SAINT JOHN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Howsham
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 73741 62892
Details
HOWSHAM MAIN STREET SE 76 SW (east side) 5/63 Church of Saint John 10.10.66 GV I
Church. 1859-60. By G E Street for Hannah Cholmley. Gritstone ashlar with bands of sandstone, plain tile roof. Narthex, north-west tower, 3-bay nave, apsidal chancel with vestry to north. High Victorian Gothic. 3-stage tower with plinth, string course and lancet beneath quatrefoil to first stage. String course supports gabled second stage. Octagonal belfry with openings separated by alternate grey marble and orange stone columns, the grey ones having ornate Italianate capitals. Spirelet with lucarnes. To right: lean- to porch of 3 columns with Italianate capitals supporting massive dosserets carrying hipped roof. West door: 2-centred arch carried on responds with foliate capitals. Rose window to gable end. Square-headed door to tower. Nave: 2-light plate-traceried windows. Chancel: 3-light window to south, three 2-light windows to east end, all with plate tracery. Interior: font and pulpit with inlaid polychrome marble. Cinquefoil cusped chancel arch. Aumbry and double sedilia. Elaborately inlaid 3-panel reredos by Earp. Painted ceiling to chancel. Stained glass by Clayton and Bell. Hutchinson J and Joyce P, G E Street in East Yorkshire, Hull University, 1981. Muthesius S , The High Victorian Movement in Architecture, 1972, Pls 70 and 71. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1972.
Listing NGR: SE7374262893
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328767
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hutchinson, J, Joyce, P, GE Street in East Yorkshire, (1981)
Muthesius, S, The High Victorian Movement in Architecture 1850-1870, (1972)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
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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