Church of St John

CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1320352
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1961
List Entry Name:
Church of St John
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET
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Date:
2001-08-27
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1320352
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1961
List Entry Name:
Church of St John
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ryhall
National Grid Reference:
TF 03624 10820

Details

TF 0210-0310 RYHALL CHURCH STREET 9/138 (west side) 6.6.61 Church of St John GV I

Church, c.1200 in origin, C13 tower and spire, C14 porch. Mostly C15 otherwise, restored 1857. Consists of 3-bay nave and aisles, 2-bay chancel, south porch; west tower and spire, north vestry of ashlar. Roofs not visible (probably of lead). 3-stage west tower with flat corner buttresses, string courses between storeys and table of corbel heads at the top lit by lancets and with 2-light bell-openings, of Y tracery on shafts with shaft-rings and nail-head decoration between. Octogonal broach spire has gabled lucarnes at the base of each cardinal side, with tracery similar to that of the bell-openings, whilst the other sides have smaller, blocked lucarnes with nail-head decoration. Embattled south porch has arched entrance with open cusping, on embattled capitals. Later 3-light window over, with round cusped heads beneath hood mould,and small 2-light Decorated windows to east and west. C15 aisles and chancel; window tracery mostly recut. Interior has 3-bay nave arcade of pointed double-chamfered arches carried on cylindrical columns with waterleaf capitals. C13 tower arch and chancel arch. C15 clerestory and roof carried on corbel heads. Chancel, with C19 roof, contains C14 2-seat sedilia with nodding ogee canopies.

Listing NGR: TF0362410820

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
187226
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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