CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067961
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SAINT JOHN'S ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SAINT JOHN'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 76616 87375
Details
SJ 78 NE ALTRINCHAM SAINT JOHN'S
ROAD
(north side)
7/29 Church of Saint
John the
- Evangelist
- II
Church. 1865-6. J. Medland Taylor. Snecked stone, ashlar
dressings and green and blue decorative slate roofs. Nave,
clerestory, aisles, south-west tower, west porch with
gallery above, transepts, polygonal chancel with vestry and
organ chamber to either side. Stone bands (some coloured),
overhanging eaves and steeply pitched roofs with coped
gables. 3-bay clerestory and aisles have polygonal weathered
buttresses, cusped circular clerestory lights and 2 2-light
aisle windows in each bay with geometrical tracery. 3-stage
tower has set-back weathered buttresses, small lancet
openings to the first 2 stages, 2-light openings to the
belfry. The broach spire has decorated bands and gabled
lucarnes. 4-light transept windows and 3 2-light chancel
windows. The vestry has a door and the organ chamber a
window which are diagonally set. Interior: nave arcade has
short columns with variously carved capitals and tall
chamfered arches. Chancel arch has elaborate columnar
corbels. Scissor-braced roof trusses. Good stained glass
(some by Abbott and Co.), carved stone pulpit, and font on
short columns with flying buttresses supporting the bowl.
Listing NGR: SJ7661687375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212784
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing