Church Of St John

SO 51 SE COLEFORD BOXBUSH ROAD (south side) 4/3 Church of St. John

II

Large parish church. 1880 F.S. Waller, and 1885 chancel and transepts S. Gambier-Parry. Rock face rubble stone brought to courses with ashlar dressings, tiled roof with double.gables on both transepts. Latin cross with apsed east end. 4-bay nave with tall 2-light windows with plate tracery, buttresses between with drafted margins. Angle buttresses to transepts. Gabled porch to north west end. West end has two 3-light windows with geometrical tracery. Interior: complex steep timber strutted collar roof on stone corbels with wind bracing with elaborately decorated timber work rood over chancel. Oak reredos carved as 1914-18 War memorial by Sir Charles Nicholson. Also fine C20 oak lectern and pulpit and screen to North transept. Stained glass east window 1958 Francis Stephens. Carved stone chancel screen and stone piscina to right of reredos.

Listing NGR: SO5735310740

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.