Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, B1257
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150631
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, B1257
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150631
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, B1257
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, B1257
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bilsdale Midcable
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 57358 94582
Details
BILSDALE MIDCABLE B 1257 East side SE 59 SE Church of St. John 18/4 23/6/66 the Evangelist II Parish church. 1896-8 by Temple Moore. Pecked coursed sandstone with dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone ridge and copings, stone spire. West tower, continuous nave and chancel, north aisle. Decorated style. Square tower of 3 stages with stepped diagonal buttresses, stepped and moulded plinth, Y-tracery west window with clock above. Small openings north and south, Y-traceried bell openings above. Short octagonal broach spire with lucarnes and vane. Stepped buttress bay divisions. North aisle under catslide roof. Cusped reticulated tracery to east window. Twin bootscrapers flank 4 steps to door. Interior plastered with stone dressings. Moulded and chamfered arches of 4-bay aisle dying into diagonal chamfered piers. East bay and eastward extension panelled off as vestry. Tall, pointed tower arch. Ribbed barreled nave roof and coffered tower roof. Good, apparently original woodwork including benches, pulpit, choir seating and desks. Chequered stone paving in slightly-raised chancel and sanctuary, and moulded piscina in south wall. Carved vestry door with monogram under long Caernarvon arch.
Listing NGR: SE5735894582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333062
- 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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