Description

SK 05 NE
4/149

WARSLOW AND ELKSTONES C.P.
UPPER ELKSTONE
Church of St. John Baptist

1/2/67

II*
Church. Dated 1786. Coursed and squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; clay tile roof with coped verges on kneelers. Oblong plan; nave and chancel in one. Round headed windows with raised key-stones; top opening glazing bar windows; single large window to right; two smaller windows to left, one above the other, the former lighting a gallery; central round headed board door with datestone above; Venetian east window. Squat louvred belfry with pyramidal roof to west end.

Interior: late C18 double decker pulpit, box pews, vestry screen, alter rail and west gallery with balustraded rail. Plaque on east wall with inscription: "This Chapel / Was Built under the Care and / Inspection of William Grindon / of Stonfold, Who with the / Sum of two hundred pounds / (one hundred and forty of which / was collected by a Brief, and the Remainder by a Levy throughout the Township) / Completed the whole in / the Year of our Lord 1788".

Ten Commandment board on north wall; Creed board and Lord's Prayer Board above east window; Coat of arms of George III above altar.

Listing NGR: SK0564058973

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531704

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Recommended Books

• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)