Church Of St John The Evangelist

TQ 14 NE 850/10/274 11.06.1973

INHOLMS LANE, NORTH HOLMWOOD Church of St John the Evangelist

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Church. 1874 by Rhode Hawkins with C20 alterations. Flint cobbles with red-brick bands and eaves and ashlar dressings. C20 interlocking concrete tile roofs; wood shingles to spire. 4-bay nave with 3-stage bell tower to north-west; lower 3-bay chancel with separately-roofed 2-bay south vestry. In Early English style having butresses with chamfered plinths, ashlar quoins and offsets; quoined ashlar surrounds to plate-traceried windows, mostly of one light; raised verges with cross finials. Nave: north and south sides each have two 2-light windows, one of the south windows made into a doorway late C20; two 2-light windows with quatrefoil over to west end. Tower: battered base; west door under hoodmould with headstops; 3-light louvred belfry openings; broached spire with weather-vane. Chancel: 5-light east window with datestone below. Vestry: Caernarvon-arched door; 2-light window to gable. Interior: moulded brackets carry scissor-braced roof-trusses, arch-braced in chancel, with iron ties and trenched purlins. Chancel has plain sedilia and piscina and tile floor. Octagonal Gothic-style marble font. Tessellated 1st World War memorial.

Listing NGR: TQ1693447187

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.