Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, SUTTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348118
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, SUTTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348118
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, SUTTON ROAD
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, SUTTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Watford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 11195 96748
Details
1. 5259 SUTTON ROAD
Church of St John TQ 1196 NW 8/39
II
2. 1891-3 by Eley E White of Christopher and White. Tall stone Gothic church in the manner of J L Pearson. Tower and spire never built. Rubble stone walls, overall slate roof with slim lead fleche over chancel arch. Four bay nave, slightly narrower 3 bay chancel, 6 bay aisles ending one bay short of east end. West narthex with gabled south-west porch. Small gabled porch in south aisle. Square turrets, panelled and with steep pyramid caps at each corner of nave and at east corner of aisles. Buttresses with set-offs to aisles, narthex and chancel. Lancet windows, paired in tall clerestory, and aisles. Single in chancel. West 3-light window with quatrefoils in head, flanked by single lancets. Three lancets to east window. South-west porch with moulded arch, mouldings dying into piers, 5 stepped lancets above cut across by a string course. Open timber nave roof. Stone vaulted chancel. Ribs quadripartite. Clerestory openings shafted with shaft-rings. Elaborate east window treatment of 3 cusped arches on ringed shafts screening lancets behind. Large stone reredos and elaborate timber rood-screen. Building News 64 1893 867.
Listing NGR: TQ1119596748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158217
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Building News in Building News, Vol. 64, (1893), 867
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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