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:
- 1330068
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- 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:
- 1330068
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- 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:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Smallwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 80610 60152
Details
SMALLWOOD C.P. CHURCH LANE SJ 86 SW 4/101 Church of St John Baptist - GV II
Church. 1845. By C & J Trubshaw. Coursed yellow sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. Nave. South-west porch and north-eastern vestry. The nave has to its western end a projecting plinth common to the whole building, two lancet windows above a stepped string-course. Angle buttresses to the corners. Lancet to gable, which has an ashlar coping and supports an ashlar bellcote with offsets and a single bell-opening. The southern face has a projecting gabled porch at left of centre with a moulded archway. To left of this are a pair of lancets and at right are two single lancets and a pair of lancets divided by buttresses with offsets. Similar arrangement of raised lancets to the north side with a gabled projecting vestry at left. The chancel has 2 windows at south with Y-tracery. The eastern window is of 3 stepped lights and the north side has one Y-tracery window at right. Interior: The nave has 6 pseudo-hammerbeam trusses which rest upon ashlar corbels. The chancel roof has three trusses with arched braces. To the western end of the nave is an organ case with a panelled wooden lower body and painted pipes above.
Listing NGR: SJ8061060152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56575
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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