Description

SO 51 SE COLEFORD BOXBUSH ROAD
(south side)
4/3
Church of St. John

II

Large parish church. 1880 F.S. Waller, and 1885 chancel and
transepts S. Gambier-Parry. Rock face rubble stone brought to
courses with ashlar dressings, tiled roof with double.gables on
both transepts. Latin cross with apsed east end. 4-bay nave
with tall 2-light windows with plate tracery, buttresses between
with drafted margins. Angle buttresses to transepts. Gabled
porch to north west end. West end has two 3-light windows with
geometrical tracery.
Interior: complex steep timber strutted collar roof on stone
corbels with wind bracing with elaborately decorated timber work
rood over chancel. Oak reredos carved as 1914-18 War memorial by
Sir Charles Nicholson. Also fine C20 oak lectern and pulpit and
screen to North transept. Stained glass east window 1958 Francis
Stephens. Carved stone chancel screen and stone piscina to right
of reredos.

Listing NGR: SO5735310740

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26506346

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