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Church of St John Baptist

A Grade II Listed Building in Winterbourne, South Gloucestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4951 / 51°29'42"N

Longitude: -2.5207 / 2°31'14"W

OS Eastings: 363949

OS Northings: 177477

OS Grid: ST639774

Mapcode National: GBR CS2.PX

Mapcode Global: VH88H.8P87

Plus Code: 9C3VFFWH+2P

Entry Name: Church of St John Baptist

Listing Date: 3 March 1961

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1233061

English Heritage Legacy ID: 408497

ID on this website: 101233061

Location: St John the Baptist Church, Frenchay, South Gloucestershire, BS16

County: South Gloucestershire

Civil Parish: Winterbourne

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire

Church of England Parish: Frenchay and Winterbourne Down

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


ST 67 NW WINTERBOURNE FRENCHAY COMMON (south side),
Frenchay
3/50
3.3.61 Church of St. John Baptist
G.V.
II

Anglican Parish Church. 1834 by H. Rumley, tower restored 1923 by Hartland
Thomas. Rubble, freestone, slate roof. West tower, galleried nave, chancel,
north porch, south vestry. 2 stage tower with heavy, weathered diagonal
buttresses, heavily moulded pointed door with angel corbels, 2 light Decorated
window above, clock under label, single lights to side with cusped oculus at
top, battlemented parapet, octagonal spire; 5-bay nave, battlemented, tall
buttresses, windows, plain Y-tracery below, Decorated above; gabled and
buttressed north porch; narrower gabled chancel has 4-light Decorated east
window. Interior: galleried, tall wave and shaft piers rise to almost round
arches and then to ribbed plaster vaults, moulded chancel arch and plaster
vaulted sanctuary. (Source: D. Verey "Buildings of England : Gloucestershire :
The Vale and The Forest of Dean" 1970).


Listing NGR: ST6394977477

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