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Parish Church of St John the Baptist

A Grade II* Listed Building in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7944 / 51°47'39"N

Longitude: -0.0122 / 0°0'43"W

OS Eastings: 537182

OS Northings: 212508

OS Grid: TL371125

Mapcode National: GBR KBT.HQB

Mapcode Global: VHGPP.Q5X7

Plus Code: 9C3XQXVQ+Q4

Entry Name: Parish Church of St John the Baptist

Listing Date: 24 January 1967

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1341839

English Heritage Legacy ID: 355876

Also known as: St John the Baptist's Church, Great Amwell

ID on this website: 101341839

Location: St John the Baptist's Church, Great Amwell, East Hertfordshire, SG12

County: Hertfordshire

District: East Hertfordshire

Town: East Hertfordshire

Civil Parish: Great Amwell

Built-Up Area: Great Amwell

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Great Amwell with St Margaret's

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

Tagged with: Church building

Description


GREAT AMWELL ST JOHNS LANE TL 3712 (south side) Great Amwell village 12/14 Parish Church of St John the Baptist 24.1.67

GV II*

Church. Cll rectangular nave and smaller apsidal chancel, C15 W- tower, N-vestry 1836, restoration 1866 for Rev. Richard Parrott. Uncoursed knapped flint with stone dressings. Chancel part- rendered. Red tile roofs with cut-back gable and lower tiling over E-apse. Red brick vestry with gabled tiled roof. Taller small heating chamber flint-faced in angle with nave. Stumpy octagonal tiled spire behind battlements of buttressed 3-stage tower. Original Norman low round headed chancel arch of 2 stepped orders on simple imposts, flanked by later squints. Original window on N wall of chancel. Other windows Lancet and Perp.. Triple E-window inserted 1856. Original C15 traceried W- door and tower arch. C15 crown-post roof to chancel exposed. Recess for road-stair next Jacobean pulpit said to be a 3-decker from Croydon Palace presented by Robert Mylne and cut down in 1866 restoration. Early C19 wall monument by Hopper. 5-bay arch-braced timber roof to nave from C19. W window by Kempe. C14 and C15 brasses. A small church of great antiquity retaining its Norman apse, found in only 2 other churches in county, and features of outstanding interest. An essential landmark in this hillside village and an important element in the landscaped setting of The New River to the N. (RCHM (1911) 93, 95: VCH (1912) 418: Pevsner (1977) 150: Mylne (1973) 1-5).

Listing NGR: TL3718212508

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