Church of St John the Divine
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, DRAYCOMBE DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208908
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, DRAYCOMBE DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208908
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, DRAYCOMBE DRIVE
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 DIVINE, DRAYCOMBE DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 42004 62810
Details
MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM
SD46SW DRAYCOMBE DRIVE, Morecambe 939-1/1/35 Church of St John the Divine
II
Church. 1899-1901 by Austin and Paley. Snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Roofs of sandstone slated with pyramidal aluminium roof to crossing tower and aluminium porch roof. Comprises a nave with clerestorey, north and south aisles, south porch, north doorway, crossing tower, south transept, north vestry, and chancel. Windows have Perpendicular tracery. The west window is flanked by buttresses with offsets and is of 4 lights. The clerestoreys are of 5 bays with 4-light windows under segmental heads. The aisle windows are of 2 and 3 lights under flat heads. The south porch has a carved niche above a moulded pointed doorway, and a gable parapet with cross finial. The crossing tower was intended to be higher and the stair projection is now capped with a bellcote. The south window of the transept is of 2 lights with blind tracery panels above and below. To the left is a doorway against a buttress. The south chancel windows are both of 2 lights with circles of flowing tracery below flat heads. The interior is of exposed sandstone. The nave arcades are of 5 bays plus a narrow western bay, with pointed arches which have 2 chamfered orders, octagonal piers without caps, and corbelled shafts supporting the outer arch orders. The open timber nave roof has queen-post trusses alternating with arch-braced collar trusses and has cusped wind braces. The crossing arches are pointed and chamfered in 2 orders, the inner orders carried on corbelled shafts. The crossing is divided from the nave by a low wall of brown-veined alabaster which incorporates a carved pulpit at its southern end. Above the chancel is a boarded barrel roof. A king-post truss has gilded angel corbels. To the east of the truss the panels are painted with monograms within circles. The communion rails have turned balusters and are carved with tracery and vine scroll decoration. The choir stalls also have carved tracery decoration. (Pevsner N).
Listing NGR: SD4200462810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391818
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire, (1969)
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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