CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

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
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, ABINGDON ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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 THE BAPTIST, ABINGDON ROAD

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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

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Legacy System number:: 249587
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 306
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 350
'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.