St John's Church, Little Gidding
St John | |
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![]() The Church of Saint John the Evangelist, erected in 1714 to replace an earlier church at the site | |
52°25′16″N 0°20′39″W / 52.4211°N 0.3441°W | |
Location | Little Gidding |
Country | United Kingdom |
Denomination | Church of England |
Website | www |
Architecture | |
Heritage designation | Grade I Listed |
Designated | 28 Jan 1958[1] |
Completed | 1714 |
Specifications | |
Capacity | 30 |
Length | 32.75 feet (9.98 m) |
Nave width | 13.66 feet (4.16 m) |
Administration | |
Province | Province of Canterbury |
Diocese | Diocese of Ely |
Archdeaconry | Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech |
Deanery | Huntingdon Deanery |
Parish | Great with Little Steeple Gidding |
Clergy | |
Vicar(s) | Mary Patricia Jepp[2] |
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St John's Church is the Church of England parish church of the village of Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire. It is dedicated to St John the Evangelist and is a Grade I listed building.[3][1] It is brick with a Ketton stone (a form of limestone) facing and a Collyweston stone slate roof.
The earliest known building on the site was a medieval one with associations to the Knights Templar which was decaying by the 17th century but restored by Nicholas Ferrar and his family when they founded their religious community in the village at that date. Mrs Ferrar had the church panelled with oak wainscoting, some of which survives on the south side of the present church's chancel. They installed an organ in March 1631-32 (now lost). Mrs Ferrar also donated the surviving brass font of c.1625 and the 15th-century brass lectern with eagle desk, were given by Mrs Ferrar, whilst the current cedar communion table also dates from the Ferrars' occupancy.[4]
That church was replaced by the present one in 1714 with a nave 8 feet shorter than its predecessor and removing the west gallery the Ferrars had installed.[5][4] It was in its turn and restored and altered in 1853.
The nave is 13.66 feet (4.16 m) wide and 32.75 feet (9.98 m) in length and fewer than 30 people can be accommodated in the stalls lining the wall of the nave. The chancel is 12 feet (3.7 m) wide and 22.75 feet (6.93 m) in width. On the south side of the chancel is a late 19th-century vestry which is a little larger than one half the width of the chancel.[6]
Although photographs take during the 1900s show an organ within the church, a 1999 survey for the National Pipe Organ Register stated that as of 1999, there was no pipe organ in this church.[7]
An Order in Council published in the London Gazette on 13 March 1923, combined the United Benefice of Great Gidding with Little Gidding with the Benefice of Steeple Gidding.[8]
St John's is listed in Simon Jenkins' "England's Thousand Best Churches".[9]
See also
- Anglican religious order
- Nicholas Ferrar
- George Herbert
- Leighton Bromswold
- Little Gidding
- Little Gidding (poem)
- Saints in Anglicanism
References
- ^ a b "Parish Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding". Retrieved 6 Feb 2017.
- ^ "St John, Little Gidding". Church of England. Retrieved 6 Feb 2017.
- ^ England, Historic. "Parish Church of St John the Evangelist - 1130115- Historic England".
- ^ a b Maycock & 1938, pages 130, 140, 142–144
- ^ A History of the County of Huntingdon (Victoria County History, 1936) III:53–57
- ^ 'Gidding, Little', An inventory of the historical monuments in Huntingdonshire. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1926.
- ^ National Pipe Organ Register. Enter "Little Gidding" in the search box and press send
- ^ "No. 32805". The London Gazette. 13 March 1923. pp. 1981–1982.
- ^ Jenkins, Simon (2000). England's Thousand Best Churches. Penguin. pp. 295–297. ISBN 0140297952.
External links
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- Friends of Little Gidding
- The Giddings, the website for the villages of Great Gidding, Little Gidding and Steeple Gidding
- Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire from a blog by James P. Miller (with photographs)
- St John's Church, Little Gidding
- Small Pilgrim Places Network; Little Gidding
- Records of St John the Evangelist, Little Gidding. Inventory of materials at the Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Videos
- Little Gidding–St John's Church October 2013
- A Visit to Little Gidding
- Extracts from 'Little Gidding' - the poem by T S Eliot - read in Little Gidding
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- Anglican pilgrimage sites
- Anglicanism
- Church of England church buildings in Cambridgeshire
- Grade I listed churches in Cambridgeshire
- Huntingdonshire
- 17th century in England
- 1626 establishments in England
- 1657 disestablishments
- 1650s disestablishments in England
- 1620s in England
- 1630s in England
- 1640s in England
- 1650s in England