Details
MANSFIELD
SK5361 ST JOHN STREET
924-1/5/105 (North side)
17/03/78 Church of St John the Evangelist
GV II
Parish church. 1855-56, north porch 1906. Designed by HI
Stevens. Built by Charles Lindley of Mansfield. Paid for
mainly by Henry Gally Knight, author of Ecclesiastical
Architecture of Italy. Mansfield and Ancaster stone ashlar,
with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs with coped
gables. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, sill band, string
course, buttresses.
PLAN: chancel, nave with clerestorey and aisles, porches,
vestry, and west tower with spire.
EXTERIOR: chancel, 3 bays, has coped gable with cross and wavy
pierced balustrades, and gabled buttresses to east end and
south side. East end has traceried 5-light pointed-arch
window. South side has 3 traceried 2-light pointed-arch
windows with a segment-arched door under the central one. All
the windows have hoodmoulds and stops. Blank north side has
lean-to vestry with coped gables and to north, a flat-headed
2-light window flanked to west by a moulded double doorway
with shafts and hoodmould.
Nave has pilaster buttresses to clerestorey, chamfered eaves
with fleurons, and on either side, 5 pairs of 2-light pointed
arch windows with hoodmoulds and stops. South aisle, 5 bays,
has off-centre porch flanked to west by a 2-light pointed-arch
window and to east by two 3-light, then a single 2-light
pointed-arch windows. East and west ends have a single 4-light
pointed arch window with Geometrical tracery to east and
flowing tracery to west. All have hoodmoulds and stops. Gabled
angle buttress at each end. North aisle, of similar design,
has porch in the same position, and 3-light pointed arch
window with flowing tracery at west end. East end blank.
Gabled south porch has flanking buttresses, plain parapet and
frieze with fleurons. Moulded doorway with double shafts and
hoodmould with ballflowers. On either side, a flat-headed
2-light window. Smaller hipped north porch has plain square
headed doorway to west.
Central west tower, 3 stages, has stepped buttresses, string
courses, gargoyles and pierced balustrade. Buttressed
octagonal stair turret to south west, with trefoil frieze and
spire with ball finial. Ground stage has to west a moulded
doorway with shafts and hoodmould, and above it, a traceried
4-light pointed arch window. North and south sides have single
lancets with hoodmoulds. Middle stage has a single lancet on 3
sides. Bell stage has two louvred 2-light bell openings on
each side with linked hoodmoulds. Set-back octagonal broach
spire has patterned string courses, ball finial and
weathercock. 3 tiers of gabled lucarnes on alternate faces.
INTERIOR: chancel has triple moulded arch with hoodmould,
painted text and filleted shafts with foliage capitals. Sill
band and scissor braced roof. East end has elaborate full
width stone reredos with depressed ogee arches, flanked by
single larger gabled niches. Stained-glass window, 1870. South
side has central door and 3 stained-glass windows, 1869, 1875,
1880. North side has pointed-arched central doorway flanked to
left by a pointed-arched organ opening with tracery and
central shaft. To right, a pointed-arched canopied niche with
shafts, containing a panel with the Beatitudes.
Nave has arch braced roof with wooden shafts on foliage
corbels. Enriched clerestorey sill band. 5-bay arcades with
octagonal piers, moulded capitals and double moulded arches
with hoodmoulds, stops and painted texts. West end has tall
segmental pointed tower arch dying into responds. Good quality
stained-glass west window, 1905.
South aisle has arch braced lean-to roof with wall shafts. At
the east end Lilley Memorial Chapel, 1926, with stained-glass
east window, 1853. Eastern windows have stained glass, 1855
and 1870. To west, pointed arched doorway flanked by
stained-glass windows 1960 and 1955.
North aisle has similar roof. Pointed arched north door and
opening at east end containing organ pipes.
South porch has moulded inner doorway with shafts, hoodmould
and stops.
FITTINGS: traceried panelled square font with corner shafts,
and similar shafts to the stem. Traceried octagonal wooden
pulpit dated 1886. Wooden eagle lectern, stalls, desks and
benches with ogee tracery and panelled fronts, all C19.
MEMORIALS: wooden war memorial plaque with bronze tablet,
c1918.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 168-169; Mellors EW: A
History of the Parish Church of St John the Evangelist:
1930-).
Listing NGR: SK5349561340
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
