Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/10/2016

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In the entry for

SE 88 SE,
10/7 (8/5)

ALLERSTON,
MAIN STREET (east side),
Church of St John

(Formerly listed as: ALLERSTON, VILLAGE STREET (east side, off), Church of Saint Mary)

(Previously Listed as Church of St Johns)

10.1.53

GV

II*

In the descriptive notes the words "3-stage buttress has recessed pointed embattled
tower with door beneath hood-mould to diagonal west", shall be amended to read:
"3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses and recessed pointed door beneath hood-
mould to western elevation".
In the following sentence of the above descriptive notes the words "bearing the
emblems of the Hospitallers and the Hastings family" shall be amended to read:
"bearing the traces of emblems of the Hospitallers and the Hastings family".

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SE 88 SE,
10/7 (8/5)

ALLERSTON,
MAIN STREET (east side),
Church of St John

(Formerly listed as: ALLERSTON, VILLAGE STREET (east side, off), Church of Saint Mary)

(Previously Listed as Church of St Johns)

10.1.53

GV

II*

Church. C14 nave, porch and chancel; early C15 tower. Chancel restored
1870; nave, porch and tower re-roofed and partly rebuilt 1881-3. Coursed
sandstone on plinth with quoins; slate roof. West tower; 7 bay continuous
nave and chancel. 3-stage buttress has recessed pointed embattled tower
with door beneath hood-mould to diagonal west. 3-light window with panel
tracery and stopped pointed hood-mould above, the stops carved as shields
bearing the emblems of the Hospitallers and the Hastings family. 2-light
transomed bell openings with louvres beneath stopped pointed hood-moulds
to each face. Parapet, carved with a band of blind tracery, is supported
by a corbel table carved with a variety of motifs. Coped, gabled porch has
a pointed opening surmounted by a reset foliate cross and contains a pointed
chamfered doorway with a pointed piscina to its right. 2-light pointed
windows with quatrefoils in the heads to nave and chancel. Ogee-arched
priest's door to chancel. On the north side are two 2-light windows similar
to those on the south, and one 3-light flat-headed window, all reset.
Blocked round-arched north door. The east window is of 3 lights with
reticulated tracery. Cavetto moulded eaves cornice. coped gable surmounted
by cross. Several fragments of carved stone have been reset in the north
and south walls. Interior: the pointed tower arch of two chamfered orders
springs from moulded corbels. C15 octagonal font on cylindrical pedestal.
Piscinae in south wall of nave and chancel.

Listing NGR: SE8782982912

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of Saint John at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17539462

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)