Church of St John the Baptist, Mamble

Heritage listing

Details SO 67 SE 2/156 MAMBLE CP MAMBLE Church of St John the Baptist 18.04.66 GV I Parish church. c1200 with early C14, C16 and late C18 alterations and additions; restored in 1880. Coursed dressed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; brick additions and plain tiled roofs with moulded bargeboards at gable ends; timber bell-tower with shingled bell-turret. Three bay nave with walls continued at west end to enclose tower structure; south aisle with south porch; chancel of roughly two bays with south vestry added at east end of south aisle and with Blount Chapel adjoining north elevation. Norman and Decorated styles. Nave: original clasping gabled pilaster buttresses at west end; also C19 buttress with offsets to north elevation; C13 lancet at west end; north elevation also has C13 lancet and two restored C14 windows of two lights with hoodmoulds at eastern end; to the west of them is a blocked doorway with pointed head and segmental rear arch now screened by lean-to brick addition; above the addition is a gabled dormer with a stone chimney at its apex. The south elevation has a C19 doorway with hoodmould at its western end; bell-turret has a square base with paired louvred rectangular lights in its north, south and west elevations and broach spire and weathervane. South aisle: c1200, widened in C14; separate gabled roof and restored buttresses with offsets at ends and bay divisions; two restored two-light windows with hoodmoulds. South porch to west is gabled and timber-framed with two rows of close-set studding, brick infill and a brick plinth; the south doorway within has a pointed head with sunk quarter rounds and a segmental rear arch. Chancel: two buttresses with offsets to south elevation; C19 east window of three lights; two C13 lancets at eastern end of south

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.