St John the Baptist, Beeston
St John the Baptist, Beeston
St John the Baptist is a Grade II parish church on Church Street, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, a Perpendicular rebuilding by Scott and Moffatt around a fifteenth-century chancel.
- Location
- Beeston, Nottinghamshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Nottinghamshire
- City / town
- Beeston
- Address
- Middle Street, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, NG9 1GA
- Postcode
- NG9 1GA
- Built
- 15th-century chancel; nave and remainder rebuilt 1842–44; enlarged 1876
- Consecrated
- 5 September 1844
- Architect
- George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt; enlarged 1876 by C. H. Thornton
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- John the Baptist
- Diocese
- Southwell and Nottingham
- Parish
- Beeston
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Perpendicular Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Pecked ashlar; gabled and lean-to slate and patterned tile roofs
- Grid reference
- SK 528 368
- Opening hours
- Each weekday from 11.30am to 1.30pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a fifteenth-century chancel, the remainder rebuilt in 1842 by Scott and Moffatt, enlargement in 1876 by C. H. Thornton, an organ chamber of 1876 and a vestry of 1897. The style is fifteenth-century Perpendicular. The fabric is pecked ashlar with gabled and lean-to slate and patterned tile roofs, moulded plinth and sill band, crenellated parapets and coped gables with crosses. The plan is a south-west tower, nave, chancel, north and south aisles, north transept and vestries. The four-stage tower has a higher octagonal stair turret at the south-west corner.
Wikipedia and the parish record consecration on 5 September 1844 by the Bishop of Lincoln, at a cost of about £3,600. The listing notes a five-light west window with panel tracery, a transomed five-light east window, and a fifteenth-century south doorway with a seventeenth-century plank door. The medieval church was heavily restored and rebuilt as Beeston grew.