Description

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SE YORK ROAD
839-1/16/200 (South side)
09/12/76 Church of St John

II

Church. 1857. By JH Hakewill, with later alterations. Flint
with red brick and ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Comprising a
nave, apsed chancel and south porch. 1859 south aisle added by
AW Morant, nave extended west 1866, north aisle, transept and
north chancel aisle 1878, south transept and vestry 1884 by
Bottle & Olley. Restored 1989.
EXTERIOR: 3 gables to west end, pierced by triple paired
lancets to nave, double paired lancets to north aisle, a
single paired lancet to south aisle. Paired lancets to north
and south aisle flanks. 2 paired lancets to the transept
facades under a foiled plate-tracery circle. South transept
with a polygonal turret terminating in an open lantern under a
pyramid roof, relocated in 1884. Apsed east end, the walls
again with lancets. Set to the east but linked by a covered
passage is the vestry: hexagonal, 2 lancets to each facet,
pyramid roof with lantern.
INTERIOR: hexagonal vestry with a boarded ceiling. Nave with
6-bay arcade of circular columns on waterholding bases. On
north there are sea-weed capitals, on the south stiff-leaf
capitals. Low pointed arches with red brick banding.
Scissor-braced nave and aisle roofs, boarded to north aisle.
Roll-moulded chancel and sanctuary arches. Sanctuary has
clustered colonnettes to the lancet windows. Plain octagonal
font on clustered keeled columns.

Listing NGR: TG5298507172

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561714

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House