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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St John the Baptist, Frenchay at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7593745

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Recommended Books

• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)