CHURCH OF ST JOHN

CHURCH OF ST JOHN, GATEFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370402
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN, GATEFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370402
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN, GATEFORD 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, GATEFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Bassetlaw (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 58490 79536

Details

SK 57 NE WORKSOP GATEFORD ROAD (East side)

3/70 Church of St.John

II

Parish church. 1868. By R. C. Clarke and Son for Messrs. Machin and Foljambe. Decorated Revival style. Rockfaced ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Moulded chamfered plinth, buttresses, moulded string courses, moulded eaves and corbel table, balustrade, shouldered coped gables with kneelers and crosses. Gargoyles. Lancet windows with shafts with foliate capitals and hood moulds. Doors with similar hood moulds and stops. West tower, nave, chancel, north porch, north and south aisles, organ chamber and vestry. Buttressed 2 stage west tower has 4 pinnacles and broach spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes. Moulded west portal with shafts and shouldered doorway with inscribed tympanum. Foundation stone and single lancet to south. Stair turret to north. First stage has single lancets to west and south, and above, to west, clock. Second stage has a double lancet bell opening on each side. Clerestorey has 5 triple lancets on each side. Chancel, 2 bays, has 2 double lancets on each side, and to east, a triple lancet and above, vescia piscis. 5 bay north aisle has porch to west and 4 double lancets. Single bay north porch has moulded doorway with clustered shaft responds and stiff leaf capitals. A single trefoil opening on each side. Organ chamber has moulded doorway to north and blocked double lancet to east. Vestry has to east a square headed triple lancet and to south, a doorway with shouldered head. South aisle has 5 double lancets and a similar lancet to west. West porch has segmental headed doorway and rib vault on imposts. Nave arcades have 4 clustered piers with various foliate capitals, quatrefoil bases and chamfered and rebated arches with hood moulds. Sill band and clerestorey windows with shafts. King post roof with cusped arch braces and shaft responds. Chamfered and rebated tower arch with traceried timber screen, 1912. Roll moulded chancel arch with triple shaft responds and hood mould. Chancel has a single arch each side, with clustered responds. East end has linenfold panelling and matching reredos. East and south windows have C19 stained glass. Arch braced principal rafter roof with single responds. North aisle east end has traceried panelling, c.1938, and arch to organ chamber. 3 windows with C19 and C20 stained glass. Roof with curved braces. South aisle has timber screen forming vestry at west end and 5 windows with C2O stained glass. Fittings include plain pews, panelled traceried oak stalls, panelled oak pulpit on octagonal ashlar base, brass eagle lectern on ringed shaft, 1898; font with chamfered inscribed plinth, granite shaft with 4 minor shafts, square bowl with recessed figure panels and corner shafts. Traceried panelled cover. Memorials include war memorial window and brass, 2 C19 and single C20 brasses.

Listing NGR: SK5848379533

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 17 August 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 241279
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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War Memorials Register, accessed 17 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27176

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.