Weight: 810 lbs Diameter: 34.38" Bell 1 of 6
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1870
Dove Bell ID: 7390 Tower ID: 16780 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: eighth Cracked: No
Whitfield: St John the Evangelist
Diocese of Peterborough
Church, 628035
http://www.astwellparishes.org.ukOverview
Grid reference: SP 607 395
The design is typical of Woodyer's interpretation of the Early English style, provided with his variant of sharply pointed lancet windows. The tower is of three stages undistinguished externally; the lowest has diagonal buttresses, and a doorway in the west wall with a small lancet above. The chancel has three lancets unequally spaced on the south wall, the larger interval being taken up by a buttress; at the base of the wall is a simple plinth and a stringcourse forms the sill to the windows, stepping up at the east to form the higher sill of the window in the east wall.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
West tower and spire; nave with north aisle and south porch; chancel with north organ chamber and vestry.
Footprint of Church buildings: 197 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
The present church is by Henry Woodyer (1816-1896); it was built in 1870.
Exterior Description
The design is typical of Woodyer's interpretation of the Early English style, provided with his variant of sharply pointed lancet windows. The tower is of three stages undistinguished externally; the lowest has diagonal buttresses, and a doorway in the west wall with a small lancet above. The ringing chamber is lit solely by a small rectangular light in the north wall and the belfry, which is slightly set back, has paired bell-openings each with a quatrefoil in plate tracery above the main lights. The spire is quite plain and solidly proportioned with one series of lucarnes in the cardinal faces; it is crowned with a gilded weathercock. Access to the ringing chamber is by a small staircase turret in the angle of the south tower wall with the west wall of the nave.
The first bay of the south nave wall is taken up by the porch, which stands at the head of the path leading from the churchyard gate. The outer arch is chamfered, the chanfers continuing to the ground. The inner arch, which takes the form of big cusping within the other, is carried on shafts attached to the points of the responds. Three lancets within deep reveals pierce the side walls, and the inner doorway has two orders of roll-mouldings and an oak door provided with clegant scroll decoration to the hinges. The remaining bays of the south nave wall have windows each with identical Y tracery with a roundel in the spandrel, and at the south east corner is a substantial buttress.
The chancel has three lancets unequally spaced on the south wall, the larger interval being taken up by a buttress; at the base of the wall is a simple plinth and a stringcourse forms the sill to the windows, stepping up at the east to form the higher sill of the window in the east wall. This consists of three stepped lancets of exceedingly sharply pointed character, each separated from the other by thin buttresses on plate tracery rather than by shafts.
The north wall is almost entirely obscured by the tiny vestry under a pent roof and the taller cross-gabled organ chamber to the west; the former has a smal lancet in the cast wall and a doorway in the north, the latter with two lancets and the sacred monogram IHS executed in Gothic lettering carved in relief in the point of the gable. The north aisle is under one sweep of roof with the nave, there being no clerestory and the only distinction between the two being a slight change of pitch. The aisle wall is pierced by single lancets under a continuous blank arcade (another favourite idion of Woodyer's) and several rainwater heads are dated 1869.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
1898
East window: three lights, the Crucifixion flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John.
Stained Glass
1889
South chancel I: St. Paul.
Stained Glass
1898
South chancel II: Christ the Good Shepherd.
Stained Glass
c.1898
South chancel III: Christ Teaching.
Stained Glass
1877
South nave I: The Good Samaritan and The Holy Family.
Stained Glass
1908
South nave III: Hope and Charity.
Stained Glass
North aisle I: "Search the Scriptures"
Stained Glass
1904
North aisle II: Samuel
Stained Glass
1894
North aisle III: Martha
Stained Glass
1905
North aisle IV: Christ with Child
Stained Glass
1914
North aisle V: Enoch
Stained Glass
1904
North side VI: Ruth
Stained Glass
West window: small lancet with St. John the Evangelist
Interior
Interior Description
The hard grey stone used to face the exterior is also used for detailing within the building, complementing the pale buff of the plastered walls. The west tower arch has three chamferedorders dying into the responds at each side, and is quite small and narrow in scale, the whole building indeed not being large. The three south windows stand within plain reveals with chanfered rore-arches and the north arcade, of four bays, has octagonal piers without capitals. Instead the sides towards the arches swell out at this point so that the mouldings continue up and round the arches without a break, a most odd feature. They are completed by an outer moulding supported on pointed corbels in place of capitals. The aisle itself is lit by small single lancets to each bay.
The chancel arch, crossed by a timber screen, is plain with keeled mouldings an and an inner order on corbels carved as the heads of a king and a bishop. On the south wall are four niches with trefoiled heads, the form of the trefoil continuing back to the outer wall with unusual effect. Three of the niches are trefoil-headed lancet windows and the fourth (the second from the east) forms a sedilia, of exaggerated proportions since although the arch is in line with the others, the seat is of course much lower than the sills of the windows; this corresponds with the buttress on the outer face of the wall. The eastern window has a piscina set in the sill. On the north side is an arch opening to the organ chamber, fillod with a row of organ pipes, and the three lancets which form the east window are set within an arcade on shafts of polished marble, the arches of typical sharply pointed trefoiled pattern.
Almost all of the stained glass is by Morris and Co.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
The altar table is plain, of oak, with a vine trail along the front of gradine.
Pulpit
The pulpit is of deal, semi-octagonal, with paired "Woodyer" trefoiled lancets in each panel.
Lectern
1870
The lector is a brass reading desk on a pedestal.
Organ (object)
1877
Small one-manual instrument, seven speaking stops, tracker action, by Finchan, 1877, all within a swoll box save for the pedal pipes and diapason front pipes.
Rail
Communion rails, evidently by Woodyer, with his trefoiled sharp-pointed lancets.
Screen
Of deal, with three Woodyer lancets on each side of the central opening, the latter with an oddly-cusped arch.
Bells
Weight: 437 lbs Diameter: 25.25" Bell 2 of 6
Founded by Whitechapel Bell Foundry 1996
Dove Bell ID: 45724 Tower ID: 16780 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Weight: 467 lbs Diameter: 26.75" Bell 3 of 6
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1870
Dove Bell ID: 45725 Tower ID: 16780 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: eighth Cracked: No
Weight: 525 lbs Diameter: 28.38" Bell 4 of 6
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1870
Dove Bell ID: 45726 Tower ID: 16780 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: eighth Cracked: No
Weight: 563 lbs Diameter: 29.5" Bell 5 of 6
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1870
Dove Bell ID: 45727 Tower ID: 16780 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: eighth Cracked: No
Weight: 603 lbs Diameter: 31.25" Bell 6 of 6
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1870
Dove Bell ID: 45728 Tower ID: 16780 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: eighth Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: SP 607 395
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
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