Bournemouth, (St. John the Baptist, Moordown)

St. John the Baptist's Church, Moordown, Bournemouth

Built 1873-4; designed by George Edmund Street, later chancel (by Arthur Blomfield, 1886-7) and tower. Pevsner and Lloyd say that it is "not an inspired work ... All rock-faced, with plate tracery and lancets in the nave, bar tracery in the chancel. Big wheel window at the W end"

Sources:

• Pevsner, N. and Lloyd, D., The buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967, p. 123.

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