CHURCH OF ST JOHN

CHURCH OF ST JOHN, WESTON HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1324559
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN, WESTON HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1324559
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN, WESTON HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN, WESTON HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Buckhorn Weston
National Grid Reference:: ST 75690 24717

Details

ST 72 SE BUCKHORN WESTON WESTON HILl (north side)

6/65 Church of St John (formerly listed as Church of St John GV II* Baptist)

Parish Church. C14 origin with C15 porch. Tower 1861, north aisle and organ chamber 1870. 1861 work by Thomas Richards of Wincanton, 1870 work by G R Crickmay. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Gabled tiled roofs with stone copings. Nave has stone slate verges. Plan: Nave, chancel, north aisle, north organ chamber, west tower, south porch. Tower: 2-stage, embattled with crocketted finials and diagonal weathered buttresses; chamfer ed, 2-centred west doorway, trefoiled window with label over; north wall has diamond shaped window with quatrefoil; segmental-pointed belfry lights with louvres; sundial dated 1599. Nave has C19 south windows of 2 and 3- lights under 2-centred heads with flowing tracery and labels with head stops. North and south chancel walls have C14 2-light windows under 2-centred heads. East chancel window of 3-lights with Geometric tracery under a 2-centred head having a label with foliage stops. Aisle windows are square-headed, of 2 and 3-lights and 'Perpendicular' tracery. Porch with moulded 4-centred head arch above which is a canopied niche with pinnacles and crocketted finials containing worn figure said to represent St John the Baptist. 3-centred, chamfered south doorway with continuous jambs. Internal features: 2-centred, chamfered chancel arch dying into flat jambs; 2-centred tower arch of 2 chamfered orders dying into flat jambs; 3 bay aracade of 2-centred, moulded arches on piers with 4 subsidary shafts with capitals; 2-centred, roll-moulded organ chamber arches; combined arch-braced and scissor- truss nave roof; arch-braced collar-truss chancel roof on corbels; arch-braced collar-truss roof on corbels to aisle; C15 octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels each having a pair of fleurons above, the whole supported on a moulded octagonal pier on a square base; remains of rood vice; recess with 2-centred moulded cusped head containing recumbent effigy of man in C14 dress (said to be Alexander Mobray): pedimented marble wall plate to Samuel and Ann Clark, 1761;C18 floor slabs, reset C14 piscina in chancel; C19 pulpit with blind tracery, C19 benches; C19 glass. (RCHM, Dorset, vol IV pp6-8, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 121. Pitfield F P Dorset Parish Churches A-D, Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp 128-131.)

Listing NGR: ST7569024717

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 102904
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 6-8
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 121
Pitfield, FP , Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 128-131

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.