Listed Building: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST (108571)

SY 88 NE EAST HOLME 5/112 Parish Church of St John the Evangelist II Small parish church, built 1865-6. Architect J Hicks. Ironstone walls, stone slate roofs with coped gables. In Gothic Revival style. Nave, chancel with north vestry. South porch. Small west bell turret with trefoil arch under stone gable. Plain lancet windows to nave and chancel. Triple lancets to east window. Double lancets to west window with quatrefoil over. Internal walls plastered, with contemporary mural paintings. Good carving to chancel arch capitals, nave and chancel roof corbels and cornices. Chancel and west windows have rere-arches with Purbeck marble shafts and carved caps. Arch-braced roofs to nave and chancel. All fittings contemporary except for a C17 brass tablet - from the former Priory Church. Three medieval stone coffin lids in churchyard - rather eroded. Good example of small C19 church. RCHM Monument 1. Note. The chancel arch from the former Pirory Church was re-erected in St John's Chapel, Creech-Steeple Parish - q.v. Listing NGR: SY8992185962

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Nov 1 2006 5:38PM