Description

SJ 46 NW GUILDEN SUTTON C.P. CHURCH LANE
(West Side)

5/10 Church of St John the
Baptist.

1/6/1967

GV II

Church: 1815 (Pevsner and Hubbard), but nave has C16 work. English
garden wall bond orange brick with lines of vertical timbers and wall
plate visible in nave. Welsh slate roof. 5-bay nave and chancel in
one range, south porch and octagonal louvred bellcote. Dentil brick
cornice. Windows of nave and chancel are simple and have
semi-circular brick heads. Gabled porch has a pair of half-glazed
doors. East window, lancet shaped with 2 wooden mullions.
Interior: Very plain with raised chancel and wooden chancel screen.
Partly exposed kingpost trusses with diagonal braces, all heavily
cusped. Circular stone front dated 1635 and doorway with twisted
balusters dated 1698. Painted memorial plaque to Whitehead family,
probably by Randle Holme III.

The former chancel blew down in 1802 and it is reported that Sir J T
Stanley of Alderley rebuilt the church by 1810 when he sold the
living. Ormerod G, History of Cheshire, 1819.

Listing NGR: SJ4489068181

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St John the Baptist's Church, Guilden Sutton at Wikipedia
• St John the Baptist's Church, Guilden Sutton official website
• Wikidata Q7593720

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)