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Latitude: 51.85 / 51°51'0"N
Longitude: -0.0213 / 0°1'16"W
OS Eastings: 536387
OS Northings: 218675
OS Grid: TL363186
Mapcode National: GBR KB1.TPR
Mapcode Global: VHGP9.LR3N
Plus Code: 9C3XVX2H+2F
Entry Name: Church of St John the Evangelist (Church of England)
Listing Date: 23 November 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1308010
English Heritage Legacy ID: 161061
Also known as: St John the Evangelist Church, High Cross
ID on this website: 101308010
Location: St John's Church, High Cross, East Hertfordshire, SG11
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Thundridge
Built-Up Area: High Cross
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: High Cross St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Church building
High Cross TL 36 18 STANDON HIGH ROAD (east side)
9/4 Church of St John the Evangelist (C of E)
GV II
Church. 1846. By Anothony Salvin (1799 -1881) for Dame Lousia Giles Puller of Youngsbury. Tower added 1906. Ragstone with freestone limestone dressing and ashlar battlemented tower parapet. Steep slate roof carried down in flatter pitched catslide over N aisle. Small copper spike to tower. In Decorated style a square ended chancel, wider nave with 4-bay arcade to N aisle, gabled S porch, NE gabled vestry, and SE 3- stage tower with clock. Diagonal corner buttresses, gable parapets and apex crosses. Single-light pointed and cusped windows to aisle. 2 2-light and one single-light window to S wall of nave. 4-light Dec. E window and similar 3-light W windows. Interior austere with arch-braced open roofs on stone corbels. Arcade with equilateral arches in 2 chamfered orders and octagonal piers with C14 moulded caps and bases. Unusual octagonal stone font with deep band of cusped panel work around bowl. Stained glass: E window 1876 an early work by Kempe; W window c1893 by Selwyn Image of Christ with Mary and John most extraordinary for that date in its design according to Pevsner; pre-Raphaelite 2-light SE window in nave C1893 by Helen Coombe (Mrs Roger Fry). (Pevsner (1977) 195).
Listing NGR: TL3638718675
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