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:
- 1360627
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- 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:
- 1360627
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- 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.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 68905 00494
Details
KING'S NORTON
SK 60 SE
5/63 Church of St. John the Baptist
29.12.66
GV I
Church. 1757-75. By John Wing the Younger, of Leicester, for William Fortrey, the Squire of King's Norton. Ashlar with parapetted roof. W tower with nave and chancel under one roof. In Gothic Revival style with plinth, buttresses and angle buttresses with set-offs, and the windows with ogee hood moulds and label stops. W tower of 4 stages. W doorway and various windows, quatrefoil and cusped diamond openings in lower 3 stages. 3 friezes of quatrefoils, circles with wheels of mouchettes, and cusped triangles, 4 paired 2-light bell openings, machicolated frieze, cornice frieze, openwork parapet of quatrefoils and crocketted pinnacles. A crocketted spire was destroyed by lightning in 1850. The nave has 7 2-light windows either side, with transoms and Reticulated tracery. Above is a cusped triangle frieze, an openwork parapet of quatrefoils, and crocketted pinnacles. On E end 3 windows, all with Late Geometrical tracery. Very fine interior laid out on collegiate plan and contemporary. W gallery on Roman Doric columns. 3-decker pulpit at E end-of nave with gates either side to chancel. These and communion rail in Gothick style. Carved wooden reredos. Gothick font. Box pews. Royal Arms on canvas. Clock and chiming machine dated 1765 and inscribed to Joseph Eayre of St. Neots who cast most of the bells. On N side projecting from wall a finely carved stone monument and protecting wrought iron railing. Over pedestal with inscription panel to John Smalley, died 1763, and wife, a coat of arms with broken pediment over and urn with flame finial to either side. 'Of the churches of the Early Gothic Revival this is one of the most remarkable in England ... The whole and especially the tower show a seriousness of purpose not surpassed before 1800.... The interior is wonderfully complete and unchanged' Pevsner. King's Norton Parish Church guide, Leicester, 1976.
Listing NGR: SK6890500494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
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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