Church Of St John The Baptist

HERTINGFORDBURY CHAPEL LANE TL 21 SE (South side) Letty Green 5/51 Church of St. John the 24.11.66 Baptist (formerly listed as Church of St. Mary with St. John) - II

Parish church, built as chapel of ease. 1849-50 by G. Fowler Jones, probably endowed by the 6th Earl Cowper of Panshanger (q.v.). Extended 1890. Brick with knapped flint facing, stone dressed. Slate roofs. Gothic Revival Style. Originally a simple rectangle, 4 bay nave with 1 bay chancel. Extended to E by 1 bay with organ bay/vestry to N, mission room to S and porch to W. Gabled porch to W, leaded lights in timber frame on flint and stone base, ridge cross. 2 tall lancets in W wall with an upper hexafoil light. End buttresses to N and S. Stone coped gable parapet. Sanctus bellcote on ridge with cusped bell opening, buttresses, ridge cross on gabled head. Nave walls have 4 lancets with trefoiled heads, buttresses, original chancel bay has blocked openings. Mission Room to S has separate roof. W gable end, pointed arched entrance, paired lancets with hood mould, parapet with kneelers. Similar paired lancet to E. Chancel E end has 3 trefoil headed lancets, an upper hexafoil light, coped parapet with kneelers. Organ bay/vestry has gable to N. 2 lancets with a hood mould, coped parapet with kneelers. Interior: arched braced collar beam roof, later chancel bay is narrower with a timber chancel arch on shaped brackets, chamfered arch to organ bay and pointed arched vestry door. Panelled Gothic reredos. Ornamental iron communion rails, timber pulpit with open Gothic panels with iron ornament. Simple patterned glass in nave windows, figures in E window. (The Builder, vol. VII, No.347, Sept.29, 1849: VCH 1912).

Listing NGR: TL2863910869