Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, MARTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1139854
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, MARTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1139854
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, MARTON ROAD
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 THE EVANGELIST, MARTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 50111 20207
Details
In the entry for the following:
MIDDLESBOROUGH MARTON ROAD
NZ 52 SW (5020)
east side
2/54 Church of St. John
the Evangelist
17.7.68
The building shall be upgraded to grade II*.
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MIDDLESBROUGH MARTON ROAD,
NZ 52 SW (5020)
east side.
2/54 Church of St. John
the Evangelist.
17.7.68
G.V. II
Church, 1863/65 by John Norton (London). Tower added 1881/83 by Alexander
and Henman. One-bay west extension to nave and aisles, 1914 by C.G. Hare
(London). South porch 1927. Late C20 extension to vestry. Red brick with
sandstone and patterned polychrome brick dressings. Brick with stone
dressings to extensions and porch. Welsh slate roofs. North-west tower,
clerestoried nave with aisles, transepts and south porch, and short apsidal
chancel with north vestry and south chapel Early English style, with plate
tracery. West extension Decorated style with flowing tracery. 4-stage
tower, with setback buttresses and moulded plinth, has boarded double doors
with scrolled iron strap hinges, under cusped head on nook shafts with
carved capitals, in north face. Slit lights under relieving arches in 2nd
and 3rd stages. Paired bell openings with shaped louvres, in uppermost
stage. Octagonal angle turrets and short, recessed octagonal spire with
ball and cross finials. 4-bay nave and aisles, and one-bay extension.
Windows in groups of 3. Buttresses between aisle bays. Lean-to south porch
adjoins original west end bay. Extension has paired windows and original
west window with Geometric-style tracery. Transepts, with angle buttresses,
have rose windows above 3 lancets. Lower chancel has 3 circular clerestorey
windows, and pointed windows flanked by buttresses in half-duodecagonal apse
with half-pyramidal roof. Flat-roofed vestry extension. Chapel has round
east window. Cross finials on all gables. INTERIOR: 6-bay nave arcades
with round piers, carved capitals and moulded bases. Richly-carved roundel
above chancel arch with round responds on corbels. Similar arches to
transepts and south chapel. Barrel roof with moulded ribs and wall plate,
and gilded richly-carved bosses. Flying buttresses in aisles support
moulded panelled ceilings with similar bosses. Transepts have kingpost roof
trusses with braced collars, 2 rows of purlins and collared rafters.
Similar chancel roof has patterned curved braces and carved principals. 4
steps to marble-paved chancel, with good wrought-iron gates and railings.
Carved panelled oak 1914-18 war memorial altar. 3-bay, 2-tier painted
reredos, 1927 by Farmer (London), with Resurrection scenes in canopied
niches. Carved dado panelling in sanctuary. Square carved stone font, on
marble and stone colonnettes, and stone octagonal pulpit, with open
trefoil-headed panels, on colonnettes, both by Farmer. Richly-carved rood
with weepers, suspended from chancel arch. Good stained glass in east
window depicts scenes from Life of Christ. Stained glass in aisle windows
by Laver Barraud and Westlake (London). Occupies important corner site and
is a local landmark.
Listing NGR: NZ5011120207
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 21 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59760
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 21 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9723
War Memorials Online, accessed 21 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/250446
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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