Church of St John the Baptist Including Wall to Guildhall
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST INCLUDING WALL TO GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1382379
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist Including Wall to Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST INCLUDING WALL TO GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1382379
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist Including Wall to Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST INCLUDING WALL TO GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
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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 BAPTIST INCLUDING WALL TO GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley-in-Arden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 15112 66015
Details
HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
SP1566 HIGH STREET
652-1/10/106 (East side)
05/04/67 Church of St John the Baptist
including wall to Guildhall
GV I
Church. c1450 with slightly later north aisle and earlier west
tower; restored 1856 and 1900.
MATERIALS: coursed dressed lias and coursed lias rubble with
ashlar dressings; old tile roof.
PLAN: single-vessel chancel and 4-bay nave; west tower and
north aisle.
EXTERIOR: coped gables with crosses. Chancel has 5-light east
window with renewed Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould with
head stops; diagonal buttresses.
Small C19 gabled vestry to north has tile roof and 2-light
straight-headed window.
North aisle has flying buttress to west end, cornice, parapet
and coped gable; 3-light windows with no hoods, that to east
with renewed tracery.
Nave south elevation has deep plinth, off-set buttresses and
diagonal buttresses, and plain cornice; 3-light windows with
renewed tracery and foliated hood stops.
West end has shallow-gabled porch with plinth, panelled
diagonal buttresses and cornice with crenellated parapet;
entrance has continuous mouldings and depressed arch (other
entrances similar) and hood with beast stops, crockets and
finials, C20 paired battened doors; inner entrance has king
and queen headstops, crockets and paired 9-fielded-panel
doors; south side of porch has cusped panelling flanking
2-light straight-headed window. Renewed 4-light west window
has hood with woman and green man stops, crockets and fleuron.
3-stage west tower has plinth and diagonal buttresses ending
in bases to removed pinnacles; 2-light west window.
Triple-chamfered cusped light to south and west, with
continuous hoodmould; third stage has similar straight-headed
lights; top stage has 2-light transomed bell-openings, the
lower lights with stone infill, upper ones louvred; south side
has stair lights and lozenge-face clock; top cornice and C19
or C20 crenellated parapet.
INTERIOR: nave and chancel has roof with arch-braced cambered
tie beams on angel corbels, queen struts to arch-braced
cambered collars, wind braces and coupled and ashlared common
rafters; north arcade has wide shallow 4-centred arches on
tall octagonal piers, east respond and west corbel in form of
winged beast (cf Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon); chancel
north door.
South and east windows have head stops with large and
elaborate headgear. Aisle has stop-chamfered members to roof;
east window over entrance; 2 north windows with stops similar
to arcade corbel, and north door set inside-out;
double-chamfered tower arch with C19 screen.
FITTINGS: C20 panelling to sanctuary, simple stalls and timber
rail; early C16 pulpit with renewed stone base, panels with
blind tracery over linen-fold with renewed brattished cornice;
plain octagonal font with shallow C17 or C18 bowl; mostly C19
fittings.
MONUMENTS: marble wall tablet to Simon Kempson, d.1719, and
Margaret, d.1699; panel with apron, side pilasters ending in
scrolls and crest with armorial bearing. 2 early C18 floor
slabs, one to Robert Clayton with armorial bearing. Brass
First World War memorial lists causes of death.
STAINED GLASS: 1879 east window; 1865 aisle east window with
figure of Hope set in grisaille; 1882 west window with
pictorial Nativity; south windows of c1856 with decorative
roundels set in grisaille.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall connecting north-west angle of tower
with the Guildhall (qv) has 4-centred entrance with plank
door.
HISTORY: believed to have Hanoverian Royal Arms to tower. The
church built as a chapel of ease to the parish church at
Wooton Wawen, and was first mentioned in 1367; the north aisle
was used by the Guild of the Holy Trinity, St John the
Evangelist and St John the Baptist, first mentioned in 1408.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 309-10; Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London:
1979-: 112; Victoria County History: Styles P: Victoria
History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 210-11).
Listing NGR: SP1511366017
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 29 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482763
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 210-211
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 309-310
Hickman, D, Shell Guides in Warwickshire, (1979), 112
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 29 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/19287
War Memorials Online, accessed 29 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/104743
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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