Parish Church of St John the Elder
PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE ELDER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1220492
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE ELDER, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1220492
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE ELDER, HIGH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE ELDER, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85426 53095
Details
STOKE ON TRENT
SJ85SE HIGH STREET, Goldenhill 613-1/2/43 (South West side) Parish Church of St John the Elder
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Parish Church. 1840-1. By Stanley of Shelton, a local architect. Brick with slate roofs. Byzantine Romanesque style, with west tower and spire, nave and chancel. West tower ornamented with brick laid in a herringbone pattern, and with stone broach spire. Round-arched west doorway with thick stone shafts carrying moulded brick archway. Paired windows over. Nave divided into 5 bays by buttresses, with porch to NW, with round-arched stepped brick moulding to archway with chevron decoration, carried on cushion capitals over thick stone shafts. Brick chevron decoration to eaves band continues round eastern gable. Short chancel with 3 light east window with stone shafts in brick interlaced arcade. Interior a single span with simple unmoulded chancel arch, and western gallery carried on cast iron columns. Stained glass windows form a series of 3 between 1896 and 1917, apparently by the same artist. (The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Pugh R B: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-).
Listing NGR: SJ8542653095
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 384422
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1963)
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