Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340393
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340393
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Randwick and Westrip
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 82747 06702
Details
SO 8206-8306 RANDWICK RANDWICK VILLAGE
14/214 Church of St John the Baptist
28.6.60
GV II
Parish church. C14 tower. Remainder extensively rebuilt in C18 and early C19. Nave restored and partly rebuilt 1865 by W.B. Baker of Stroud; large south aisle and chapel added 1894-6. Ashlar limestone; stone and artificial stone slate roof. Nave and chancel with south aisle and chapel; north vestry and west tower; west porch. Two-stage tower with Decorated tracery to west window; diagonal offset corner buttresses. Two-light belfry openings with stone louvres and crenellated parapet. Parapet gabled west porch with pointed archway, end wall of aisle having older masonry at base, one stone dated 1719; upper part of gable with cusped circular west window and remainder of aisle added 1894- 6. Three geometrical traceried windows to south wall of aisle; three Decorated style north nave windows. Parapet east gable ends to chancel and south aisle, chancel window with Decorated tracery, geometrical tracery to aisle. C20 gabled north vestry; hipped roof to organ loft alongside. Interior: C19 2-bay pointed arched arcade between a nave and aisle of similar width and height. Low-pitched ribbed nave ceiling, 5- bay arched braced collar truss roof to aisle. Cusped roof trusses in chancel supported on carved corbels with shafts to eastern bay terminated by carved angels. Shouldered arched vestry doorway with quatrefoil openwork panel above. Oddly-placed pointed arched doorway central to east end of aisle. Font, pulpit, pews and choir stalls all C19. Some good monuments: wall tablet with elaborate border containing cherubs' heads to SARAH COOKE, died 1726. Several other C18 monuments to west aisle wall. Monument with scrolled pediment to nave wall has crest and gadrooned base, inscribed to James Mitchel, Gent Lord of Randwick, died 1758. Another with 2 urns on obelisk background to ANN, Wife of Thomas White, died 1784. Some windows have later C19 stained glass. Queen Anne hatchment dated 1711 to west wall of aisle. (N.M. Herbert, 'Randwick' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 224-230; D. Verey, Cotswold Churches, 1976, and Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979) ___
Listing NGR: SO8274706702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132773
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, Cotswold Churches, (1976)
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 224-230
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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