PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, ST JOHNS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1341839
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, ST JOHNS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1341839
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, ST JOHNS LANE

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:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, ST JOHNS LANE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Amwell
National Grid Reference:: TL 37182 12508

Details

GREAT AMWELL ST JOHNS LANE TL 3712 (south side) Great Amwell village 12/14 Parish Church of St John the Baptist 24.1.67

GV II*

Church. Cll rectangular nave and smaller apsidal chancel, C15 W- tower, N-vestry 1836, restoration 1866 for Rev. Richard Parrott. Uncoursed knapped flint with stone dressings. Chancel part- rendered. Red tile roofs with cut-back gable and lower tiling over E-apse. Red brick vestry with gabled tiled roof. Taller small heating chamber flint-faced in angle with nave. Stumpy octagonal tiled spire behind battlements of buttressed 3-stage tower. Original Norman low round headed chancel arch of 2 stepped orders on simple imposts, flanked by later squints. Original window on N wall of chancel. Other windows Lancet and Perp.. Triple E-window inserted 1856. Original C15 traceried W- door and tower arch. C15 crown-post roof to chancel exposed. Recess for road-stair next Jacobean pulpit said to be a 3-decker from Croydon Palace presented by Robert Mylne and cut down in 1866 restoration. Early C19 wall monument by Hopper. 5-bay arch-braced timber roof to nave from C19. W window by Kempe. C14 and C15 brasses. A small church of great antiquity retaining its Norman apse, found in only 2 other churches in county, and features of outstanding interest. An essential landmark in this hillside village and an important element in the landscaped setting of The New River to the N. (RCHM (1911) 93, 95: VCH (1912) 418: Pevsner (1977) 150: Mylne (1973) 1-5).

Listing NGR: TL3718212508

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Legacy System number:: 355876
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 418
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 150
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,

Legal

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