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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