Church Of St John The Evangelist

Lemsford TL 21 SW HATFIELD LEMSFORD VILLAGE (south-east side)

5/169 Church of St John the Evangelist -

GV II

Church. 1858-9 by David Brandon in Early English Gothic style. Rough-cut ashlar stone with smooth stone dressings. Westmoreland slate roofs. SE chapel added in 1930 for the Nall-Cain family by F E Howard in Perpendicular style. Nave has trefoil-headed single lancets with hood moulds, stepped buttresses and continuous moulded sill course. Parapeted gabled S porch. Two stage W tower has clasp buttresses, 2-light plate-tracery belfry opening and quatrefoil parapet. Large 5-light E window with intersecting geometric style tracery. SE chapel has 3 4-centred arch windows with cusped tracery and moulded, stepped buttresses. Moulded plinth and crenellated parapet. W door with crocketed ogeed arch is surmounted by an elaborate 2-light window. Interior has naturalistic leaf capitals. Stained glass to E window by Clayton and Bell 1874. Altar frontal in carved wood dated 1605. Rich lierne vaulting to chapel. Canopied tomb in luscious perpendicular style to Florence Nall-Cain (d. 1927). Altar reredos carved in wood and alabaster. (Pevsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL2179312007