Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, ST JOHNS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257359
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, ST JOHNS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257359
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, ST JOHNS ROAD
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, ST JOHNS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 31750 98260
Details
CROSBY
SJ3198SE ST JOHN'S ROAD 778-1/7/119 (South side) Church of St John
II
Church. 1864-5, by Culshaw [Pevsner]; slightly altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings, fishscale slate roof with bands of purple slate. STYLE: Early English, with lancet windows throughout. PLAN: nave with south porch and north baptistery to the west end, large transepts to the east end, chancel with side offices. EXTERIOR: the west gable of the nave, with angle-buttresses and bellcote, has 3 tall stepped lancets with hoodmoulds, a sillband stepped up and run out and beneath this 3 small oval lancets. The side walls, with buttresses and corbel-tables, have tall lancets, except the 1st bay on the south side which has a gabled porch with moulded 2-centred arched doorway and a small 3-sided apse on its west side, and the 1st bay on the north side which has a gabled baptistery in similar style. The roof has 2 early C20 inserted flat-roofed 5-light dormers in each side, and 2 square lead-clad pedestals (or ventilators?) on the ridge. The 2-bay transepts and 2-bay chancel are in matching style, with stepped lancets in the gables, the south transept has a shallow gabled porch beneath the windows, with a moulded 2-centred arched doorway, and the chancel roof has a dormer in each side like those of the nave. INTERIOR: large unaisled nave with transepts; good stained glass windows by various artists, including one at west end of north side by Kempe; pitch-pine pews with side aisles.
Listing NGR: SJ3175098260
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463978
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969), 419
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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