Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130026
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130026
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH HILL ROAD
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, CHURCH HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 49516 52681
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4952NE CHURCH HILL ROAD 740-1/78/597 (East side) 01/05/75 Plymstock, Hooe (Lower) Church of St John (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH HILL ROAD Plymstock, Lower Hooe Parish Church of St John's)
GV II
Parish church. 1855 by William White. Plymouth limestone rubble walls with limestone dressings; very steep dry slate roofs; bellcote with paired openings over the W end of the nave. STYLE: simple early-mid Gothic. PLAN: nave; long chancel; S aisle and S porch. EXTERIOR: paired lancet windows with quatrefoils over. Porch has pointed -arched doorway with 2 chamfered orders. INTERIOR: 5-bay arcade of unmoulded pointed arches on squat octagonal black marble piers with chamfered capitals; painted roof trusses to chancel. FITTINGS: red marble font on slightly tapered limestone base; very complete chancel furnishings of coloured marble in early Decorated style; reredos with gabled arcading and pierced tracery; credence shelf with little Gothic aedicule; communion rails with trefoil arches; simple marble sedilia; alter front with carved and painted wooden tracery; choir stalls moved to W end of church in 1968; screen of 1907; linenfold panelling to nave, 1916 by Violet Pinwell. STAINED GLASS: mostly post-war, some by G Cooper Abbs. MONUMENTS: 2 Gothic tablets to the Rev. J Tapson, who died 1904, and family. Part of a distinguished group by White, including St Johns Church Hall (qv), built on the initiative of Sir Frederick Rogers who was a keen Tractarian. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 681 & 682).
Listing NGR: SX4951652681
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473240
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 681-682
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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