CHURCH OF ST JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS

CHURCH OF ST JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS, ST JOHN'S ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1333479
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS, ST JOHN'S ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1333479
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS, ST JOHN'S ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS, ST JOHN'S ROAD

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Exmouth
National Grid Reference:: SY 02814 83370

Details

In the entry for:-

ST JOHN'S ROAD SY 08 SW (South-East Side) Withycombe Raleigh 6/79 Church of St John- in-the-Wilderness 6.12.49

GV B

the entry shall be amended to read as follows

SY 08 SW ST JOHN'S ROAD (South-East Side) Withycombe Raleigh 6/79 Church of St John- in-the-Wilderness 6.12.49

GV II*(Star)

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ST JOHN'S ROAD 1. 5176 (South-East Side) Withycombe Raleigh Church of St John- in-the-Wilderness SY 08 SW 6/79 6.12.49. GV 2. Originally the C15 parish church, largely demolished circa 1748. The tower and part of the north aisle remained but the rest has been skilfully reconstructed. West tower of sandstone with crenellated parapet. String courses, angle buttresses and polygonal staircase turret. Church windows generally Perpendicular style. Small 2 bay chancel. Inside, a carved C15 capital remains at the west end of the nave arcade. Said to have been founded in C13 but some Norman fragments on a window sill.

Listing NGR: SY0281483370

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Legacy System number:: 87519
Legacy System:: LBS

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