Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, ST JOHNS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1358390
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, ST JOHNS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1358390
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, ST JOHNS ROAD
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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, ST JOHNS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hillingdon (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 04812 83512
Details
UXBRIDGE
804/21/391 ST JOHN'S ROAD 06-SEP-74 UXBRIDGE MOOR (South side) CHURCH OF ST JOHN
II Commissioners' Church, now converted into offices. Built 1838 by Henry Atkinson. London stock brick with slate roof and stuccoed dressings. Simple box-like plan to the Atkinson church with a W porch and bellcote, and a later chancel(chancel not seen at time of survey, July 2004).
EXTERIOR: W end to the street with a stuccoed W porch with gabled parapet above a string course, set-back buttresses and a Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould. Clock face in moulded stuccoed roundel above. The church is gabled to the W with a stuccoed parapet and gabled bellcote at the apex. N and S windows with Y tracery.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but the chancel is understood to have been preserved as a single space.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Of special interest as an 1838 Commissioners' Church, this is a characteristic early-Victorian church by the architect Henry Atkinson. It is representative of a district growing in population in this period and expanding its places of worship. St John's is a typical example of a Commissioners' Church: using inexpensive materials and keeping architectural decoration to a minimum. The design is successful, however, in overcoming barriers of cost to produce an attractive church. Its stock brick and stucco dressing mirror the materials used in many London domestic buildings of this period and the side windows and porch are elegantly executed. It marks the end of the Georgian approach to Gothic design, before Pugin's writings and designs led to such a major change in church buildings. While the loss of interior features is regrettable, the exterior is intact and the church fully merits listing at Grade II.
SOURCES: Pevsner, The Buildings of England, London 4, North, 1999, p 358
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 202958
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 4, North, (1998 revised 2001), 358
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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