Description

SU 89 NW LACEY GREEN CHURCH LANE

7/69 Church of St John the Evangelist 21.6.55

- II

Parish church, formerly chapel of ease. Nave of 1822-25 by J. Chadley; chancel added 1871 by J. P. Seddon. Flint, Denner Hill stone quoins and chamfered plinth, chamfered brick window surrounds, cogged brick eaves. Roof re-tiled 1980. Cruciform nave; chancel with canted E. end and small organ chamber to north. W. end of nave has gabled porch with rendered 4-centred arch, and later brick chimney to -right. 3 bays of rectangular 3-light transomed windows to N. and S., the centre bays projecting with rendered Tudor hood-moulds over windows and rendered crosses in gables. Blind panels with 4-centred arches to W.sides of projections, N. projection with blocked 4-centred doorway to E. Later C19 bell-cote between nave and chancel, also a buttress to S. Chancel has flush brick band course, 2-light traceried stone windows, and arched door to S. Interior: nave plastered and colourwashed with wide 4-centred arches to central projections. Roof has slender hammer beam trusses with central 4-centred arches and turned pendants. W. gallery with panelled front on cast iron quatrefoil shafts. Armorial glass in central N.window commemorating original donors. Chancel is lined with yellow brick and patterned with red brick dressings and diapers. Steeply pointed chancel arch, another arch to organ chamber. Painted wooden vault. Stained glass of 1905.

Listing NGR: SU8249599869

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)