Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, ABINGDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368533
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, ABINGDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368533
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, ABINGDON 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 THE BAPTIST, ABINGDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 40727 98108
Details
KINGSTON BAGPUIZE WITH SOUTHMOOR ABINGDON ROAD SU4098 (West side) Kingston Bagpuize 11/88 Church of St. John the Baptist 09/02/66
GV II
Church. 1799-1800 by John Fidel of Farringdon: remodelled in 1882 by Edwin Dolby of Abingdon. Coursed and dressed limestone on ashlar plinth, with rusticated quoins; hipped Welsh-slate roof. Nave with apse. 2-bay side walls, including south chapel, have blind rusticated round arches with inner round-arched leaded casements. Pedimented east gable wall has apse with similar surrounds to stained glass window. Pedimented west end has similar round-arched entry: paired Norman-style windows by Dolby surmount Doric entablature with columns framing plain double-leaf doors. Fine bell cupola: oak Doric columns dividing louvred sides, support lead roof with wrought-iron weathervane. Interior: late C19 benches and pulpit. Late C18 and early C19 wall tablets and Latin memorial tablet to George Rainsbee, d.1624. South Chapel has wall tablet to John Blandy, d.1844, and to John Blandy, d.1762, and his wife: latter has marble obelisk with 2 portrait medallions and flanked by putti, standing on entablature; fine monument to Edmund Fettiplace, d.1710, has tasselled canopy over folding drapery with urns, set over inscription tablet with achievement and winged putto at base. Plan and elevations of 1799 show the apse ascribed by Pensner to Dolby. (Bodleian Library, MS Top. Berks. C.57 pls.138, 139; John Betjeman and John Piper (Eds.), Hurray's Architectural Guide, Berkshire, p.131; Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.160; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol. IV, p.350; H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840, 1978, p.306).
Listing NGR: SU4072798108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249587
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 350
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 306
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 131
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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