Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HOLLOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253560
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HOLLOW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253560
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, HOLLOW LANE
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, HOLLOW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingsley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 54752 75014
Details
KINGSLEY C.P. HOLLOW LANE SJ 57 NW (North Side) 2/129 Church of St. John. GV II Church, 1849, by George Gilbert Scott. Red squared snecked sandstone rubble; grey slate roofs. Recessed west tower and spire; nave with south porch and short north aisle; chancel; north sacristan. Tower of 1 stage above nave roof: square west buttresses; triangular belfy window with tracery of 3 circles; corbel table; splay-footed stone spire with lucarnes on cardinal faces and clock dials on 3 of oblique faces. Gabled porch; lean-to north aisle; cross-gabled sacristy. Late C13 detailing with lancet and Geometrical windows. Oak doors on ornate wrought iron hinges; shaped chimney to sacristy. Interior. West baptistry with arches to vestries north and south; tower arch with lower arch to each side to nave; red softwood north aisle arcade of 3 bays; arch-braced principal rafters, scissor-trussed common rafters;. corbelled chancel arch on semi-octagon responds. Wrought iron screen by Scott. Octagonal font. Early and mid C20 glass in chancel and easternmost window of north aisle. Stone reredos with polished granite columns.
Listing NGR: SJ5475275014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436680
- 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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