Church Of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Parish church.

Church Of St John

WRENN ID
over-pavement-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Country
England
Date first listed
11 November 1966
Type
Parish church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St John is a parish church that was mainly rebuilt in 1882 by Crickmay, with a north chapel that dates back to 1729. The church incorporates materials from medieval windows and features a nave, chancel, north chapel, and south porch. Its walls are made of dressed stone, and it has a slate roof with tile cresting and stone gable-copings. Stone crosses adorn the east gable end and the head of the bell-cote. The church is a single storey with five windows.

On the south elevation, there are three-light stone mullion windows with cusped designs and square heads above. There are also two-light windows with pointed cusped heads and quatrefoils above, featuring dressed stone voussoirs. Buttresses separate the nave from the chancel, with two set-offs, and similar buttresses are at the corners of the chancel. The south porch has a rubble base with stone above, a pitched gable roof covered in slate and stone slate, and stone gable-coping. The stone bell-cote on the west gable has two cinquefoiled arches with labels above and a small trefoil-cusped light, along with stone gable-coping and a cross.

Two 15th-century windows have been reused in the nave's north wall and the west wall. The north chapel, dated 1729, is made of ashlar with rusticated stone quoins and features stone gable-coping. It has a three-light 18th-century stone mullion window with a round octofoil in the head and a square stone label with stone label-stops.

Inside, the nave and chancel are differentiated by coupled short responds on single foliage bases. The roof has a wooden barrel-vault that is compartmented. The north chapel window contains early 20th-century stained glass. Notable monuments include a tapering slab with a small stone effigy of a knight in armor from the 13th century, and a marble tablet with a corbel-cartouche, shell-cornice, and bust on a plinth dedicated to Adam Martin, who lived from 1738 to 1739.

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