Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1040916
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1040916
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HIGH STREET SOUTH
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, HIGH STREET SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiffield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69917 51629
Details
SP 65 SE TIFFIELD HIGH STREET SOUTH (East side) 3/190 Church of St. John the Baptist 17/05/60
GV II*
Church. C13 and C14. Restored, south aisle and porch added 1859 by E.F. Law; further restoration and rebuilding 1873 by H.C. Vernon. Coursed limestone rubble, slate roofs to nave and chancel, lead roofs to aisles and tower, plain-tile roof to porch. Chancel, aisled nave, south porch and west tower. Chancel has 3-light C19 Decorated east window and similar 2-light window to south-west. Original foliated east gable cross re-set in south wall. Nave has 3-bay clerestory with quatrefoil window to south flanked by trefoiled windows; arrangement reversed to north. Aisles has 2-light C19 Decorated-style windows. South door, re-set, has many moulded doorway, 6-panel double leaf doors with C19 ornamental hinges and hood mould. South porch has double hollow-chamfered doorway, small niche above with ogee hood mould and stone-coped gable with kneelers. West tower has 2-light west window with ogee-arched heads to lights and quatrefoil to head, similar bell-chamber openings and battlemented parapet with gargoyles north and south. Nave and aisles have stone-coped parapets, chamfered stone eaves to chancel and angle buttresses to chancel. All windows have hood moulds except those to clerestory, most with carved label stops, Interior: chancel has 2-seat sedilia with double roll-moulded arches, and encaustic-tiled floors. Nave has 3-bay arcades, C13 to north with circular piers and moulded bases and capitals, C19 to south with octagonal piers and polygonal responds. Norman font, circular with palmette ornament in beaded scalloped moulding on C19 base. C19 stain-glass windows to east end and west end of south aisle. Hanoverian Royal Arms, oil on canvas. Monuments: stone wall monument to Gerance James, d.1645, with inscription alluding to Civil War. Slate wall monument to Rev. John Gilbert, d.1730, and his wife Frances, d.1749. Horizontal oval white marble wall monument on polished slate background to Rev. Bartholemew Keeling, d.1779, and his wife May, erected, as inscription records, by their executers, the Rectors of Orlingbury and Maidford, April 1781. White marble wall monument signed by Whiting to Rhoda, wife of Rev. J.T. Flesher who died 1837 with tribute beginning "SHE WAS ZEALOUSLY PIOUS WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM". Similar monument to her youngest son James, d.1838. (Buildings of England, Northanptonshire, 1973, p431-2)
Listing NGR: SP6991751629
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235010
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 431-2
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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