Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379964
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379964
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Barnet (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26393 93652
Details
TQ 2693 CHURCH OF ST JOHN
(Also known as St John the Apostle)
31/16/10380 II
Parish church. 1832, said to be by a member of the Blomfield family of architects and clergymen, for Joseph Baxendale. Chancel and west porches added 1879-80 by James Brooks for William Passmore. Vestry 1897. Brick; slate roofs.
PLAN: aisleless nave with 2 west porches, chancel, sanctuary and vestry. EXTERIOR: nave with polygonal corner turrets formerly capped with ogee domes (south domes remain). 3 stepped lancet lights to west window. North and south flanks of 5 bays separated by flat plain buttresses with set-offs. 4 3-light plate tracery windows under hoods on label stops. Gabled porches to west bays, each with a doorway and a 3-light transomed window to the east faces; other sides without openings. Timber west bell turret demolished 1996.
3 lancets to chancel east end, with hoodmoulds; flat corner buttresses. Gabled north vestry lit through lancets. 2 stacks.
INTERIOR: string course runs under the side windows of nave and over the arched doorways into the porches. Nave roof of 10 trusses of scissor braces, principals and 2 tiers of purlins. Pointed chancel arch with undercut mouldings on corbels with stiff-leaf foliage. Chancel with arch into sanctuary on north side and a former external window looking into sanctuary. Organ to south of c. 1860 by G. M. Holdich, with the console reached through a shouldered doorway in the nave east wall. Balancing doorway to the north into sanctuary. Chancel roof of boarded scissor-braced trusses.
4-sided pulpit with trefoiled arched openings. 14 plaster Stations of the Cross. Drum font with fleur-de-lys to the base and a fluted bowl.
STAINED GLASS: east window with Crucifixion by William Morris & Co., 1880, the figure of Christ above a pelican by Philip Webb. West window with 9 scenes from the Life of Christ, 1883 by lavers and Westlake.
West end of church with family vault of Joseph Baxendale: iron spear-headed railings with square standards topped with urn finials. Inscription panel fixed to church wall.
Included as a good and complete example of an early nineteenth century Gothic design. Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London, was a supporter of the church's foundation, and is said by some sources to have been the architect.
Sources
John Heathfield, The Story of St John's Church and Whetstone, 1992
Bridget Cherry and-Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England, London 4, North, 1998, pp.191
Listing NGR: TQ2639393652
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479431
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Heathfield, J, The Story of St Johns Church and Whetstone, (1992)
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 4, North, (1998 revised 2001), 191
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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