Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, KING'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1162695
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, KING'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1162695
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jul-1987
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, KING'S ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, KING'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 94704 00385
Details
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE KING'S ROAD SD 90 SW (north-west side)
1/11 Church of St. John the 12/1/67 Evangelist (Formerly listed as Church of St John the Evangelist, Hurst)
- II
Church. 1847-9. By Shellard for the Church Commissioners with transepts and tower by G. Shaw in 1862. Rock-faced stone with slate roof. Nave with aisles and transepts. Almost free-standing south-west tower and a chancel with organ chamber and side chapel. Gothic revival. Projecting plinth, continuous sill band and hoodmould. 4-bay aisle and 2-bay transepts with lancet windows, weathered buttresses and porch in bay 2. 4-light geometrical tracery transept windows, 3-lancet east window and 2-lancet west window. 2- bay chancel. Coped gables with cross finials. The clerestory contains no windows. Bold 3-stage tower has diagonal weathered buttresses and a circular corner stair turret. It diminishes in size at each stage, the top stage having stepped broaches before changing to an octagon to accommodate the spire. Interior: west gallery with C20 partition below. Quatrefoil piers support double-chamfered nave arcade. Arch-braced roof trusses. Waggon roof to chancel. Stained glass and timberwork which includes elaborate canopied seats in the chancel and a reredos. O. Whittaker, a local mill owner was the principal benefactor. W. A. Parry, History of Hurst and Neighbourhood.
Listing NGR: SD9470400385
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 212659
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Parry, W A, History of Hurst and Neighbourhood, ()
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