Church of St John the Evangelist

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1157844
Date first listed:
13-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Church of St John the Evangelist
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1157844
Date first listed:
13-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Church of St John the Evangelist
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Langcliffe
National Park:
Yorkshire Dales
National Grid Reference:
SD 82309 65025

Details

LANGCLIFFE SD 86 NW 2/1 Church of St John The Evangelist II Parish Church. 1851 by Mallinson and Healey of Bradford. Coursed rock-faced stone, ashlar dressings slate roof. Nave, chancel, south porch, north vestry and boiler house. Early English style. 3 bay nave with one single-light and two 2-light trefoil headed windows; stepped buttresses; octagonal bell turret with pyramidal hood at west gable end, and cruciform finial at east gable end. 2 bay chancel is narrower and lower than nave; south entrance has chamfered surround, decorated lintel and plank door; to left is a 2-light trefoil headed window with a cinquefoil above, to right is single-light trefoil-headed window. Angle buttresses to east end with a 3-light trefoil-headed window with 2 trefoils and 1 quatrefoil above. Cruciform finial at east gable end. South entrance porch has pointed arch with hoodmoulds and decorated stops; plank door and gable end cruciform finial. On north wall is lean-to vestry at west end of nave and lean-to boiler house against chancel. Source W A Shuffrey, The Churches of the Deanery of North Craven (1914) pp 223-227

Listing NGR: SD8230965025

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Legacy System number:
324238
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Shuffrey, W A, The Churches of the Deanery of North Craven, (1914), 223-227

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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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