St John'S Place

St John's Place is a church, now offices, built in 1841. It was designed by John Hicks, with the chancel added in 1864 by SB Gabriel. The building is constructed from squared Brandon Hill Grit rubble with limestone dressings, limestone ashlar towers, and a pantile roof. It has a cruciform plan with two towers facing west. The style is Perpendicular Gothic Revival.

The east gable has shallow crenellations, diagonal buttresses and a six-light window with panel tracery and lamb stops, with flowers carved into the drip. The north chancel window features two lights in a four-centred arch. The gabled north transept has an arched doorway with Tudor flowers on the mouldings, diagonally set buttress pinnacles with angel capitals and a crocketed ogee hood, and a four-light window above. The transept's west window and those in the four-bay nave are narrow, with three lights and a transom in four-centred arches. The west bay forms the base of the tower. The south elevation includes a late 19th-century vestry against the chancel, with one- and three-light flat-headed windows.

The west front is flanked by two-stage towers with diagonal buttresses, arched doorways with casement mouldings and head stops, and two-light windows to the side elevations. Second-stage paired lancets have linked, stilted hoods and dragon corbels between them, above diagonal buttress pinnacles rising through a plain parapet, with crocketed corner pinnacles. Two-stage openwork turrets have narrow cinquefoil windows and crenellated tops. The west front has an arched doorway in a label mould with dragons in the spandrels and lancets each side. Above this is a four-light Perpendicular window in a crenellated gable containing a crocketed niche with a statue. The interior was not inspected. The building was converted to offices and auction rooms in 1990. The structure includes stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.