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Latitude: 51.6585 / 51°39'30"N
Longitude: -0.3939 / 0°23'37"W
OS Eastings: 511195
OS Northings: 196748
OS Grid: TQ111967
Mapcode National: GBR 48.1DT
Mapcode Global: VHFSM.4K4Y
Plus Code: 9C3XMJ54+CF
Entry Name: Church of St John
Listing Date: 7 January 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1348118
English Heritage Legacy ID: 158217
ID on this website: 101348118
Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, WD17
County: Hertfordshire
District: Watford
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Watford
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Watford St John
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Church building
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5259 SUTTON ROAD
Church of St John
TQ 1196 NW 8/39
II
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1891-3 by Eley E White of Christopher and White. Tall stone Gothic church in the
manner of J L Pearson. Tower and spire never built. Rubble stone walls, overall
slate roof with slim lead fleche over chancel arch. Four bay nave, slightly narrower
3 bay chancel, 6 bay aisles ending one bay short of east end. West narthex with
gabled south-west porch. Small gabled porch in south aisle. Square turrets,
panelled and with steep pyramid caps at each corner of nave and at east corner of
aisles. Buttresses with set-offs to aisles, narthex and chancel. Lancet windows,
paired in tall clerestory, and aisles. Single in chancel. West 3-light window with
quatrefoils in head, flanked by single lancets. Three lancets to east window.
South-west porch with moulded arch, mouldings dying into piers, 5 stepped lancets above
cut across by a string course. Open timber nave roof. Stone vaulted chancel. Ribs
quadripartite. Clerestory openings shafted with shaft-rings. Elaborate east window
treatment of 3 cusped arches on ringed shafts screening lancets behind. Large stone
reredos and elaborate timber rood-screen.
Building News 64 1893 867.
Listing NGR: TQ1119596748
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