Church Of St John The Baptist is a Grade II* listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Church.
Church Of St John The Baptist
- WRENN ID
- blind-plinth-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
In the entry for:
SK 41 SW COALVILLE HUGGLESCOTE
3/10 Church of St John the Baptist
II
The building shall be upgraded to II* (star)
SK 41 SW COALVILLE Hugglescote
3/10 Church of St John the Baptist
II
Church, 1878, extended 1887, by J B Everard of Charnwood granite rubble with ashlar dressings and Swithland slate roofs. 5-bay nave, aisles, transepts. baptistery, S transeptal chapel, vestry, tower one bay to E of crossing, chancel. "French Gothic" style. Buttressed aisles with string course, lit by single lancets. Clerestorey of twin cusped lancets. Plate tracery to transepts, "Geometrical" 5-light E window. Tower has pyramidal roof, NE stair turret with conical roof, bell-stage. Lit by 3 cusped lancets within arcade, and arcaded storey below. W front has "Geometrical" oculus, 2 2-light windows beneath, and an arched doorway with 3 orders of mouldings and gabled surround. Interior arcade carried on polished granite columns. Terra- cotta cornice. Contemporary fittings, including gas-jets beneath clerestorey.
Listing NGR: SK4272412759
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