Description

TL 2659-2759 ELTISLEY THE GREEN
(South Side)

11/123 Parish Church of
St John the
31.a.62 Baptist and St
Pandionia

GV II*

Parish Church. Nave and aisles c.1200 with north chapel added and chancel
rebuilt or extended in C13, replaced in white brick c.1840. Clerestorey
remodelled and tower and spire added C15. Chancel and north chapel rebuilt
c.1840. Restoration 1875-9. Walls of pebble rubble with limestone and
clunch dressings and C19 white brick. Roofs of lead and slate. South
elevation: Tower of three stages with diagonal buttresses, plastered to
second stage, with embattled parapet. Belfry window with restored
Y-tracery. Octagonal spire with crocketed gablets to spire lights. Tower
clock, C18, placed in tower in 1893 with weights contained in external wooden
box. Nave roof with bell turret and cross finial to parapet gable; three
C19 two-light clerestorey windows, two C19 three-light aisle windows. C19
porch; original south doorway with dogtooth ornament and shafted jambs with
moulded caps and bases. Chancel of white brick with reset south doorway.
Interior: Nave arcades of three bays with some restoration. Two-centred
arches of single chamfered order with chamfered labels, circular piers with
stiff-leaf and water-leaf carved capitals. C13 chancel arch of two chamfered
orders with moulded labels and mask stops. Font, C13 with octagonal bowl and
carved C17 pyramidal cover. Tomb recess in north chapel, C14 with moulded
and crocketed label stopped with lion and woman's heads, two mutilated C13
figures, a robed figure and knight in chain mail. For other monuments and
floor slabs see RCHM.

R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p90, mon. 1
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p337
V.C.H. Vol. V, pp55, 57

Listing NGR: TL2684159664

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544330

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Recommended Books

• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)