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Latitude: 51.7937 / 51°47'37"N
Longitude: -2.6198 / 2°37'11"W
OS Eastings: 357353
OS Northings: 210740
OS Grid: SO573107
Mapcode National: GBR FQ.Y0T6
Mapcode Global: VH872.J5XS
Plus Code: 9C3VQ9VJ+F3
Entry Name: Church of St John
Listing Date: 14 December 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1211330
English Heritage Legacy ID: 353694
ID on this website: 101211330
Location: St John's Church, Coleford, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, GL16
County: Gloucestershire
District: Forest of Dean
Civil Parish: Coleford
Built-Up Area: Coleford
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Tagged with: Church building
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.
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