Description

SJ 81 SE STRETTON C.P. STRETTON

5/103 Church of St. John.
19.3.62

GV II*

Parish Church. C12 Chancel, altered when the remainder re-built in
late C19. Random coursed red sandstone; steeply pitched roofs in handmade
red tile over Chancel and banded with scalloped tiles elsewhere with verge
parapets. South Porch, Nave without Aisles; Transepts and Chancel. Timber
framed gabled porch, 3 bay Nave, in Lancets, West window two light pointed
and rose window over; West gable surmounted by bell cote; slightly projecting
lower transepts built into length of Nave; two light windows in early C14
style, Chancel C12, buttressed, small rounded arch windows to North and
South sides with round arch priest's door to South; C14 reticulated three
light window to East end. Interior: Pointed arch to Chancel, depressed
pointed arches to transepts. Late C19 roof to Nave; corbelled arch braces
to ties with strutted king posts, trussed rafters in Chancel of similar
date. Piscina scalloped with flower ornament, corbels for effigies on
East wall of Chancel, mediaeval mensa altar, C17 Laudian communion rail,
late C19 octagonal stone font and octagonal timber box pulpit; simplified
poppy head to choir stall bench ends. Oval slate plaque over South door.
Carved stone C15 figure corbel by priest's door at time of re-survey.
Pre-restoration drawing within Church.

Listing NGR: SJ8867411667

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St John's Church, Stretton at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17545047

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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