Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1383523
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1383523
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hope Bagot
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 58879 74060
Details
HOPE BAGOT
SO57SE Church of St John the Baptist
582-1/4/114
12/11/54
GV I
Church. C12, C13, C14 and C17. Restored 1868 and 1911. Rubble
stone with ashlar dressings, and rendered rubble. Plain-tile
roof.
PLAN: chancel, nave with south porch, west tower.
EXTERIOR: chancel east window of 2 lights with restored
Decorated-style flat head. North wall has C12 round-headed
lancet with chevron incised head and sill. South wall has C13
lancet and C13 cusped lancet.
Nave: north wall has C12 round-headed lancet with bead
surround. South wall has one late C13 2-light plate-tracery
window to east with internally-lobed roundel under rere arch
with retable below. C20 restored lancet. Round-arched south
doorway with roll moulding on abaci and cushion capitals and
quadrant pilasters. Chevron ornament on outer abacus and
capital. Plain tympanum with shouldered soffit. Vestigial
chevron carvings on internal arch.
South porch: tiled gabled porch with C14 arch-braced trusses
reputed to be from a repositioned lych-gate; trusses of
cambered tie beam, arched braces set into jowled posts, all
chamfered with ogee central stop on tie beam, single
tenoned-purlin with cusped windbraces, plain principals
tenoned at head, collars, chamfered wall plate and restored
rafters, rails and plinth.
Tower: 2 stage tower with inclined walls and pyramid roof.
Small flat-headed lancet to west. Cusped lancet to south.
INTERIOR: chancel with early C20 oak barrel-vaulted ceiling
covering earlier roof. The C14 cusped lancet is set in low
rere arch housing pillar piscina and stepped sedilia. C12
chancel arch: formerly recessed round arch on abaci and
cushion capitals on quadrant pilasters, chevron carving on
outer arch, saltire crosses on the abaci and attached string
course running across return walls.
Nave: 3 bay double trenched-purlin roof with 2 trusses and
straight windbraces at upper tier. Trusses are early king post
trusses with raking struts set to under side of purlin
trenches. Pointed tower arch.
Mid C17 oak panelled pulpit with elaborately carved panel
inserts. Unadorned font, possibly C12. Memorial tablet to
Benjamin Giles d.1795.
(An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire:
Cranage D H S: 1895-).
Listing NGR: SO5887974060
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483953
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1895)
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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