Church Of St John

LONG LAWFORD CHAPEL STREET SP47NE (East side) 3/33 Church of St. John 06/10/60

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Church; built as a chapel of ease. Dated 1839. Designed by William Walker. Erected for John Caldecott of Holbrook Grange. Flemish bond brick with remains of cement wash and red brick plinth, and artificial stone dressings. Roof of shaped slates has coped gable parapets. Short chancel, nave, north porch, south vestry. Simple Gothic Revival lancet style. One-bay chancel, 4-bay nave. Splayed plinth, moulded sill course and hood moulds throughout. Angle and other buttresses; angle buttresses have chamfered and gableted pinnacles with moulded finial. Chancel and similar west projection have stepped lancets. Roundel above has blind quatrefoil with coat of arms to east, and date to west. Small artificial stone octagonal west turret with foliage corbel at apex of gable. Blind gablets and moulded finial. Porch has diagonal buttresses and painted plank door. Nave has 3 windows to north and south. Small vestry has south lancet, and later lean-to. Interior has pulpit, pews and other fittings of grained wood with simple lancet detail. Font of 1886 has four granite columns and octagonal basin. Stained glass panels of roundels and coat of arms, surrounded by clear glass, in east window. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol. VI, p.187; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.344; Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire, 1894, p.121).

Listing NGR: SP4724576395