CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1348736
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1348736
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

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:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

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District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weston Beggard
National Grid Reference:: SO 58390 41236

Details

WESTON BEGGARD CP WESTON BEGGARD SO 54 SE 2/174 Church of St John Baptist GV II* Parish church. C12 nave, C14 west tower, chancel and south porch, restored and south wall of nave largely rebuilt in 1881 by T Nicholson. Coursed and dressed sandstone rubble, ashlar dressings, tiled roofs. West tower, nave with south porch, chancel. West tower, three stages, moulded plinth and plain parapet, diagonal buttresses to west, 2-light window to bell-stage in semi-circular head. Carved gargoyle to south face of parapet; nave, 2-light late C19 windows flank doorway with gabled porch, outer archway of two continuous orders, inner moulded and outer chamfered, moulded label inner doorway, c1200 semi-circular headed arch of two orders, inner roll moulded and outer chamfered, chamfered label with carved stops; chancel, one single light mid-C19 window to left and 2-light mid-C19 window to right. Restored C14 windows remain on north wall of chancel, one single trefoil ogee-headed light to west and 2- light window to east. Interior: trussed rafter roof with scissor-bracing to nave reputedly of medieval date but probably heavily restored. Tower arch of three continuous chamfered orders, chancel arch of two chamfered orders, inner resting on corbels, scalloped capital to north corbel and south corbel with moulded abacus and leaf ornament underneath. Monuments: in chancel south wall, tomb recess, c1300-10, with moulded jambs, cinquefoiled and sub-cusped arch, spandrels with foliage ornament flanked by mutilated pinnacles, crocketted gable and carved finial; north wall, tomb recess with ball-flower decoration. (BoE P. 315)

Listing NGR: SO5838841237

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Legacy System number:: 155043
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 315

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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.