Church of St John the Baptist

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1184482
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1983
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE AVENUE
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Date:
2001-04-27
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1184482
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1983
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE AVENUE

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE AVENUE

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

District:
Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Clayton
National Grid Reference:
SE 11866 31958

Details

1.
5111
SE 1131 48/228

THE AVENUE
Clayton BD14

Church of St John the Baptist


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2.
Built 1849-50, designed by Mallinson and Healey. Ashlar faced. Tall nave with clerestory, low aisles and transepts, chancel. Square tower at west end with clasping buttresses. Reticulated and panel tracery windows with drip moulds. Tower has 2 light belfry openings. Crenellated parapets, large reticulated west windows to gable ends of the aisles. The location of the church and the feature of the tower make St John's the dominant feature of the townscape.


Listing NGR: SE 11866 31958

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Leach, P, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North, (2009), 197

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