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List entry Summary

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

Name: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

List entry Number: 1229368

Location

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Cheshire West and Chester	Unitary Authority	Guilden Sutton

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 01-Jun-1967

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

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

Legacy System: LBS

UID: 404196

Asset Groupings

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List entry Description

Summary of Building

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

SJ 46 NW GUILDEN SUTTON C.P. CHURCH LANE (West Side)

5/10 Church of St John the Baptist.

1/6/1967

GV II

Church: 1815 (Pevsner and Hubbard), but nave has C16 work. English garden wall bond orange brick with lines of vertical timbers and wall plate visible in nave. Welsh slate roof. 5-bay nave and chancel in one range, south porch and octagonal louvred bellcote. Dentil brick cornice. Windows of nave and chancel are simple and have semi-circular brick heads. Gabled porch has a pair of half-glazed doors. East window, lancet shaped with 2 wooden mullions. Interior: Very plain with raised chancel and wooden chancel screen. Partly exposed kingpost trusses with diagonal braces, all heavily cusped. Circular stone front dated 1635 and doorway with twisted balusters dated 1698. Painted memorial plaque to Whitehead family, probably by Randle Holme III.

The former chancel blew down in 1802 and it is reported that Sir J T Stanley of Alderley rebuilt the church by 1810 when he sold the living. Ormerod G, History of Cheshire, 1819.

Listing NGR: SJ4489068181

Selected Sources

1. Book  Reference - Author: G Ormerod - Title: History of Cheshire - Date: 1819
2. Article  Reference - Author: Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard - Title: Cheshire - Date: 1971 - Journal Title: The Buildings of England

National Grid Reference: SJ 44890 68181

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