Description

In the entry for:
WASHINGBOROUGH HIGH STREET
TF 0170 (west side)

13/61 Church of St John
The Evangelist
23.8.67

GV II

The grade shall be amended to read Grade II*.

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WASHINGBOROUGH HIGH STREET
TF 0170 (west side)

13/61
Church of St John
23.8.67 The Evangelist

GV II

Parish church. C13, C14, C15. Restored 1859 by Sir G G Scott and 1861-2
by Scott and Goddard. Western tower, nave with north and south aisle,
south porch, north vestry and chancel. Coursed limestone rubble and
ashlar with ashlar dressings. Lead roofs with coped gables with
kneelers. Chamfered plinth and angle buttresses with set-offs. 3 stage
tower has diagonal buttresses and south stair. West face has double
chamfered, pointed arched doorway with double doors above 3-light pointed
arched window. Second stage has clock face to east. Third stage has a
single 2-light pointed arched bell opening to each face, with quatrefoil
tracery. Topped by moulded battlements with 4 corner and 4 lesser
crocketted pinnacles. Unbuttressed north aisle, west wall has 2-light
flat headed window with lancets, north wall has 2 large, 3-light pointed
arched windows with reticulated tracery. Clerestory has 4 windows to
each face, each in a diamond shaped chamfered opening with cusped
quatrefoils. Vestry north wall has shouldered arched doorway, flanked by
single lancets with to left an external stack, east wall has a segment
headed window with 3 lancets. Chancel east wall has a 5-light pointed
arched window with complex reticulated tracery, south wall has 3 tall,
2-light lancets with flowing tracery, plus a small priests doorway with
to left a small flat headed window. 2-light with tracery. South aisle
east wall has 2 central, 2-light pointed arched windows with quatrefoil
tracery, to right a 3-light pointed arched window with reticulated
tracery, to left a gabled porch with a double chamfered pointed arch with
double shaft responds, and inner chamfered doorway with double doors.
INTERIOR: 4 bay nave arcades with double chamfered arches, round piers
and responds, with varying capitals. Double chamfered chancel arch with
triple shaft responds and shaft rings. Tall double chamfered tower
arch. Sedilia and piscina in chancel. C12 drum-shaped stone font, much
re-tooled. Sumptuous High Victorian Choir stalls from St Martins
Lincoln. Wooden, baluster altar rail. fine C18 brass chandelier. Royal
coat of arms. 2 fine, female demi-figure monuments, one in a cusped
frame, the other trefoil recessed. Open pedimental wall monument, with
carved decoration and death scene.

Listing NGR: TF0185270632

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St John the Evangelist at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17549251

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)