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Latitude: 51.7944 / 51°47'39"N
Longitude: -0.0122 / 0°0'43"W
OS Eastings: 537182
OS Northings: 212508
OS Grid: TL371125
Mapcode National: GBR KBT.HQB
Mapcode Global: VHGPP.Q5X7
Plus Code: 9C3XQXVQ+Q4
Entry Name: Parish Church of St John the Baptist
Listing Date: 24 January 1967
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1341839
English Heritage Legacy ID: 355876
ID on this website: 101341839
Location: St John the Baptist's Church, Great Amwell, East Hertfordshire, SG12
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Town: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Great Amwell
Built-Up Area: Great Amwell
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Great Amwell with St Margaret's
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Church building
GREAT AMWELL ST JOHNS LANE
TL 3712
(south side)
Great Amwell village
12/14 Parish Church of
St John the Baptist
24.1.67
GV II*
Church. Cll rectangular nave and smaller apsidal chancel, C15 W-
tower, N-vestry 1836, restoration 1866 for Rev. Richard Parrott.
Uncoursed knapped flint with stone dressings. Chancel part-
rendered. Red tile roofs with cut-back gable and lower tiling
over E-apse. Red brick vestry with gabled tiled roof. Taller
small heating chamber flint-faced in angle with nave. Stumpy
octagonal tiled spire behind battlements of buttressed 3-stage
tower. Original Norman low round headed chancel arch of 2
stepped orders on simple imposts, flanked by later squints.
Original window on N wall of chancel. Other windows Lancet and
Perp.. Triple E-window inserted 1856. Original C15 traceried W-
door and tower arch. C15 crown-post roof to chancel exposed.
Recess for road-stair next Jacobean pulpit said to be a 3-decker
from Croydon Palace presented by Robert Mylne and cut down in
1866 restoration. Early C19 wall monument by Hopper. 5-bay
arch-braced timber roof to nave from C19. W window by Kempe.
C14 and C15 brasses. A small church of great antiquity retaining
its Norman apse, found in only 2 other churches in county, and
features of outstanding interest. An essential landmark in this
hillside village and an important element in the landscaped
setting of The New River to the N. (RCHM (1911) 93, 95: VCH
(1912) 418: Pevsner (1977) 150: Mylne (1973) 1-5).
Listing NGR: TL3718212508
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