Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, ISLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197868
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, ISLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197868
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, ISLAND ROAD
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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.
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, ISLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 19785 68237
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD1968 ISLAND ROAD, Barrow Island 708-1/13/82 (North side) Church of St John
GV II
Church, on site of earlier church. 1934-35. By Paget and Seeley of London. Ferroconcrete with concrete and green slate roofs. Cruciform plan with enlarged crossing and with lean-tos against the nave and transepts; arcaded loggia leads to west porch; chancel has round apse, south organ chamber with bell tower and south vestry. Byzantine style. Loggia: 6 round arches to west and 4 to east. Lean-to against nave lit by two 3-light mullioned windows with 12-pane iron casements in shallow round-arched recesses. Windows in same style flank a tall, round-arched transept window having later wooden casements with glazing bars. Projecting corners of the crossing have a small round-arched clerestorey window to each side. West end has 3 lancet windows. The slated lean-tos are steeply pitched; main roofs have shallow pitch and coped parapets. North side as south. Gabled vestry has door to east and mullioned windows as before; its pitched roof is set against the organ chamber having small round-arched windows and parapet from which rises the square bell tower with paired round-arched openings, parapet and pyramidal roof with cross. Tower is linked to south transept by an arch. Chancel windows as those to the transepts; slated periphery to concrete roof. INTERIOR: crossing forms main part of nave, round arches spring from floor level on each side; segmental arches to the chancel and the organ chamber. Concrete ceiling beams. Fittings: red sandstone font. Other fitments brought from earlier church: eagle lectern; wooden pulpit; choir stalls with carvings designed by Clifford Green and executed by FJ Lord 1922 (both of Barrow). C19 stained glass to west windows: 3 panels depict St John, St Mary and Dorcas. The old church consecrated 1879. Foundation stone of this church laid 15.12.1934; consecration 28.9.1935.
Listing NGR: SD1978568237
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388488
- 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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