Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, TACHBROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381539
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, TACHBROOK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381539
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, TACHBROOK STREET
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, TACHBROOK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 32122 64521
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3264NW TACHBROOK STREET
1208-1/13/385 (South side)
25/03/70 Church of St John the Baptist
II*
Church. 1877-8, (north-east entrance dated 1877). Architect
John Cundall of Leamington. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish
bond with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival, Early English.
PLAN: 6-bay nave with clerestory and aisles, 4-stage
north-east tower with spire and south transept, single-bay
apsidal chancel with vestry to south and round-ended Lady
Chapel to north.
EXTERIOR: north side of church faces street. Chamfered plinth,
clasping buttresses to angles and slender buttresses to
clerestory. North and south porches to west end of nave, main
entrance to north porch: slender columns with foliate capitals
support two orders of arches with hollow and roll moulding,
above a blind arcade has central niche with Christ the Good
Shepherd; within, plank door with double-chamfered, pointed
arch. South porch has pointed arch with chamfered jambs and
hollow- and roll- moulding to head, within a pointed plank
door, 2-light window with bar tracery.
West end: first stage, continuous chamfered sill band, 4
lancet windows; second stage: 3 stepped lancets, decorative
band to gable, copings. Aisles (alike): continuous sill band,
pair of lancet windows to each bay with roll-moulded
surrounds, continuous impost band. Clerestory (north and south
alike): continuous sill band, 3 stepped lancets to each bay;
brattished eaves band. Pinnacle to west.
Tower: buttresses with off-sets to almost full height; stair
turret to north-east corner; first stage, to north side a
plank door in pointed-arched surround with continuous
hoodmould, impost band; second stage: 2-light window with bar
tracery to head, hoodmould continues as impost band; third
stage: blind arcade has 2 slit windows, band; 2-light belfry
windows with bar tracery to heads, band with blind arcade,
chamfered band with gargoyles; broach spire has pinnacles to
each corner and further 2-light gabled belfry windows.
South transept: 3-light window with bar tracery to head. 3
trefoil-headed lights to vestry. Lady Chapel has lancet
windows. Chancel has 3-light window with bar tracery to head
and blind bay, apse has pairs of lancets and 3 stepped lancets
to east end.
INTERIOR: brick faced; nave has 6-bay arcade of alternate
octagonal and cylindrical columns with triple-chamfered
pointed arcade with roll- and hollow- moulding; aisle windows
have roll-moulded surrounds; slender piers supporting
chamfered pointed arches to clerestory windows; brattished
cornices. Nave has coved wagon roof. Tall double-chamfered
chancel arch has slender column and 3 orders of arches with
roll-moulding.
Stained glass to chancel and aisles, 1884-9, including north
aisle memorial window to John Cundall, the architect.
To chancel a painted panel of the Baptism and sanctuary
ensemble with elaborate reredos and painted wall frieze all of
c1900.
Minton tiles to chancel floor. Chancel has canted ceiled
panelled roof.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 334).
Listing NGR: SP3212264521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481901
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 334
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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