Description

GRIMSTON MAIN STREET
(North Side)
SK 68 21 Church of St John the
20/262 Baptist
1.1.68

GV II*

Church. C13 and C15. Restored by R W Johnson 1866. Coursed, squared
ironstone, slate roofs. Chancel, nave, S transept, S porch and W tower.
2-bay chancel has 3-light E window with Perpendicular tracery with hood
mould and label stops, lancet window to N, 2-light windows to S with
straight heads, cued ogee-arched heads to lights and hood mould with label
stops. Nave has blocked arch to forum N transept, blocked N door with
chamfer and hood mould, and 3 2-light windows at clerestory level with
Perpendicular tracery, 4-centred heads and hood moulds. 4 similar
clerestorey windows to S. S transept has small lancet window to E and 3-
light window to S with Perpendicular tracery, both with hood moulds.
Renewed S door with shafts, many-moulded head and, hood mould in C19 porch
with shafted doorway and hood mould. 2-stage tower has 3-light W window
with Perpendicular tracery and 2-light bell-chamber openings with
Perpendicular tracery, all with hood moulds. Cusped lozenge frieze to base
of battlemented parapet; gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles to angles.
Interior: Double piscina in transept with pointed trefoiled arches. Nave
has Perpendicular roof with arch-braced ties on carved head corbels, 1 tier
of moulded purlins, moulded ridge and bosses. Clock of c.1600, a very
early provincial example of an anchor escapement. Stain-glass SE chancel
window, early C20 by Baguley, Newcastle. Buildings of England Leics, 1984
p.170.

Listing NGR: SK6855121893

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541795

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5