Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, STABLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135842
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, STABLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135842
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, STABLE LANE
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, STABLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Utkinton and Cotebrook
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 57125 65567
Details
UTKINTON C.P. STABLE LANE SJ 56 NE (East Side) Cotebrook 6/32 Church of St John
GV II
Church: 1874-5 by G E Street. Tooled red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Red tile roof and pierced ridge. 4-bay nave under a steeply pitched roof, short chancel over a basement vestry and a small north-east tower. Small rectangular nave windows of 3 trefoil headed lights. Chancel has a sill band and 2 lancets over a basement with a door with a shaped Caernarvon arch and a 2-light chamfered mullioned window. East end is divided by a low buttress and has a triple lancet window with weak trefoil heads. Small rectangular tower in the angle between nave and chancel has buttresses to 1st storey. A band rises above the clock and above this are thin louvred lancet bell openings. Pyramidal cap with weathervane. West window has an interesting arrangement of 4 lancets with trefoil heads and a quatrefoil above. To left side is a chamfered and moulded 2-centred arched entrance to an internal porch with a simpler door. Interior: Nave contains the porch. Windows have splayed reveals and segmental heads. Arch-braced roof with cut wind-braced purlins. Chancel arch has a triple hollow chamfered moulding and the chancel is vaulted in brick with bands of stone. Memorial east window to Sir P de M G Egerton by Kempe 1882. C17 painting of the Adoration of the Magi over the altar. Octofoil font on cluster of 8 shafts.
Listing NGR: SJ5712565567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57458
- 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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