Church Of St John The Baptist

SE 80 NW BURRINGHAM HIGH STREET (west side)

1/4 Church of St John the Baptist -

• II

Church 1856-7 by S S Teulon. Red brick in English Bond, with black brick and limestone ashlar details. Slate roof; concrete tile roof to porch. High Victorian Gothic Revival style. West tower incorporating porch to south, 5-bay nave with apsidal chancel and organ chamber/vestry on north side. Chamfered plinth and cill band. Short tower has buttresses at junction with nave, 2-light north window with trefoil-headed lights divided by ashlar shaft and pierced quatrefoil over, a similar, taller, 3-light west window with foliate capitals, and a large sunk trefoil above porch containing 3 blocked trefoils and central roundel. Stepped brick Lombard frieze at eaves. Pyramidal roof with pinnacle; octagonal chimney/turret with decorative brickwork corbelled-out from north-west angle. Porch has buttresses flanking trefoil-headed outer door with moulded ashlar imposts and blocked brick roundel above, 4-bay blind arcade to sides with shafts between trefoil-headed openings, and tumbled brick gable with stone coping and kneelers. Pointed chamfered inner door of 3 orders; board door with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges. Nave has 2-light windows with dividing shafts and pierced roundels over. Chancel has lancets and three 2-Light trefoil-headed apse windows with pierced quatrefoils over. All openings have ashlar cills and pointed brick relieving arches; those to apse, tower and porch have ashlar blocks at cusps. Steeply-pitched roof with pinnacle to right. Interior: tower open to nave and chancel, with a pointed chamfered tower arch on stepped corbels. Polychrome brick decoration: yellow walls with red diaper pattern to chancel, cross pattern to nave and bands to tower; red and black window arches. Polychrome encaustic tile floor. Open king-post roof with trusses supported on corbels and raking struts to collars. Octagonal font with coloured encaustic tile panels. C19 stained glass to south and east windows. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, pp 207-8; S Muthesius, The High Victorian Movement in Architecture 1850-1870, 1972, pp 84-5.

Listing NGR: SE8326509038