Church of St John and Adjoining Community Hall
CHURCH OF ST JOHN AND ADJOINING COMMUNITY HALL, WASHINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138257
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John and Adjoining Community Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN AND ADJOINING COMMUNITY HALL, WASHINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138257
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John and Adjoining Community Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN AND ADJOINING COMMUNITY HALL, WASHINGTON STREET
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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 AND ADJOINING COMMUNITY HALL, WASHINGTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Workington
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 00432 28499
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/10/2012
NY 0028
10/79
6.6.51
WORKINGTON
WASHINGTON STREET
(West side)
Workington
Church of St John and adjoining Community Hall
(Formerly listed as Church of St John and adjoining parish room)
II*
Chapel of ease, now parish church and community hall. 1822-23 by Thomas Hardwick with 1846 and 1888 additions. Hammer-dressed calciferous sandstone, from Schoose and Hunday Quarries, with ashlar eaves, pilasters and plinth. Graduated green-slate roof with modillioned overhanging eaves and gable pediments.
PLAN: 5-bay nave/- chancel with west portico; 1846 west square ridge tower under bell cupola; north vestry , and attached community hall, added 1881, to east.
EXTERIOR: Chapel with double panelled west doors with patterned over-light in stone architrave under plain frieze and console-bracketed cornice; flanking panelled doors in stone architraves under large round-headed niches, all within tetrastyle Tuscan portico. Tall round-headed side windows in stone architraves.
INTERIOR: Interior galleries on 3 sides on slender fluted cast iron columns, the rear of the galleries with segmental recesses to light pews below. Flat plaster ceiling with geometricl ribs and coats-of-arms. Baldacchino and font cover by J N Comper, 1930. Tall C20 carved oak pulpit. Community hall adjoins east wall, the north gable doorway offset to left, with ashlar surround dated 1881 below drip mould, and with 3-light mullioned windows, one to the left, and one above to gable centre at first floor level. Tall, 3-light side wall windows light interior, the greater part of which is open beneath decorative hammer beam roof trusses.
HISTORY: The church was built in the style of St Paul's, Covent Garden at the cost of £10,000, by the architect who restored that church.
Listing NGR: NY0043228499
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72304
- 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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