Church Of St John

PLYMOUTH

SX4952NE CHURCH HILL ROAD 740-1/78/597 (East side) 01/05/75 Plymstock, Hooe (Lower) Church of St John (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH HILL ROAD Plymstock, Lower Hooe Parish Church of St John's)

GV II

Parish church. 1855 by William White. Plymouth limestone rubble walls with limestone dressings; very steep dry slate roofs; bellcote with paired openings over the W end of the nave. STYLE: simple early-mid Gothic. PLAN: nave; long chancel; S aisle and S porch. EXTERIOR: paired lancet windows with quatrefoils over. Porch has pointed -arched doorway with 2 chamfered orders. INTERIOR: 5-bay arcade of unmoulded pointed arches on squat octagonal black marble piers with chamfered capitals; painted roof trusses to chancel. FITTINGS: red marble font on slightly tapered limestone base; very complete chancel furnishings of coloured marble in early Decorated style; reredos with gabled arcading and pierced tracery; credence shelf with little Gothic aedicule; communion rails with trefoil arches; simple marble sedilia; alter front with carved and painted wooden tracery; choir stalls moved to W end of church in 1968; screen of 1907; linenfold panelling to nave, 1916 by Violet Pinwell. STAINED GLASS: mostly post-war, some by G Cooper Abbs. MONUMENTS: 2 Gothic tablets to the Rev. J Tapson, who died 1904, and family. Part of a distinguished group by White, including St Johns Church Hall (qv), built on the initiative of Sir Frederick Rogers who was a keen Tractarian. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 681 & 682).

Listing NGR: SX4951652681