Church of St John (Methodist)
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084312
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John (Methodist)
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084312
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John (Methodist)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, MARKET STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 61911 04656
Details
HINDLEY, MARKET STREET,
SD 60 sw,
10/91
CHURCH OF ST JOHN
G.V.
II
Methodist church with ancillary rooms attached. 1890-1 by William Waddington & Son
(a practice that specialised in non-conformist churches). Coursed rubble with red
sandstone dressings. Diminishing Westmoreland and slate roofs. Church aligned N-S; S.W.
steeple over porch, storeyed NW porch, nave, transepts, apsidally-ended chancel
flanked by vestries; small apsidally-ended meeting hall attached aligned E-W.
Round-headed windows throughout with free, very simple tracery only to the front
windows and steeple. The entrance front is an original and bold design: SW steeple,
octagonal, the tower of four unequal storeys mostly of red sandstone with alternating
blank windows and belfry openings, the spire with gabled lucarnes, the whole rising
out of the storeyed porch, gabled to two sides, with large 2-light windows to gallery
level. Large round-headed doorway of several orders. Very large tripartite window to
nave with smaller 3-light window below, all in red sandstone. Slender SE octagonal
turret; continuous sill and impost bands throughout. SE porch recessed, with similar
doorway to that of the SW porch, set under simple lancets. Simple single or paired
tall lancets to other elevations. Transept and chancel (with canted apse), vestries
and meeting hall, all under varying-roof lines form an interesting grouping when
viewed from NW.
INTERIOR: end gallery with panelled frontal; impressive roof, coffered and coved,
with moulded ties and king posts, the pseudo ridge-piece made up of ventilators.
Coffered panels with decorative plasterwork. Chancel with blind round-headed niches
between windows. Furnishings: simple benches with shaped ends; stone front panelled
pulpit; boarded dado. Coloured patterned glass throughout.
St John's Church provides the only major architectural accent in the central part of
Hindley and includes design elements of considerable originality.
Listing NGR: SD6191104656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358738
- 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.
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