Church of St John

CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HODGE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374501
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St John
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HODGE LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374501
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Church of St John
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HODGE LANE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HODGE LANE

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
East Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Marchington
National Grid Reference:
SK 10962 29659

Details

SK 12 NW MARCHINGTON C.P. HODGE LANE (West side)

11/158 Church of St. John -

- II

Chapel of ease. 1858-9. By A.D. Gough of London. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings; shaped tile roofs with plain tile bands, crested ridge tiles and coped verges. 5-bay nave and south porch, North-west tower with broach spire; 2-bay chancel and single cell north and south chapels. Mainly late C13 style, windows mainly pointed with cinquefoil headed lights, geometrical tracery and hood moulds terminating in heads. North-west tower: 4 stages; pointed north door, 2-light window to west, semi-octagonal projection to east with a single- light trefoil-headed window beneath a pointed arch and moulded eaves with ballflower ornament to a hipped stone slate roof; second stage has single light trefoil-headed windows under pointed arch with hood mould over terminating in heads; blind quatrefoil within a circle to each side of third stage; belfry stage has 2-light louvred openings. Nave: 3-light windows, each bay division marked by a buttress, gabled south porch of timber on stone plinth, shaped and fretted barge boards. Chancel: Pointed east window of 5 lights the central one wide, incorporating a rose window over, blind pointed trefoil within a circle to gable, single-light north and south windows; single light windows to east and west of north and south chapels and 2-light windows to north and south with square heads and cinquefoil headed lights; octagonal projection to west of north chapel with single-light trefoil headed windows under pointed arches. Interior: Pointed chancel arch, chamfered outer arch and marble inner arch of 2 orders spring from marble shafts with naturalistic foliage to capitals and corbel bases, ball flower ornament between the 2 orders, pointed squints to each side of the arch, looking into the chapels flanking the chancel; between chapels and chancel are 3-bay arcades of pointed arches with cinquefoil cusping; arch braced collar roofs to nave and chancel with braced king posts and decorative cusping, arch braces spring from marble shafts with foliated caps and corbel bases. Fittings: Octagonal stone font with panelled sides; complete set of pews; octagonal wooden pulpit with carved foliage and ball flower ornament; choir stalls have poppyheads to ends; altar rail on twisted wrought iron stands with brackets in form of foliage. B.O.E. p.202.

Listing NGR: SK1096229659

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Legacy System number:
273865
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 202

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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