Church of St John the Divine
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, BROOKLANDS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261946
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, BROOKLANDS ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09623/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261946
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, BROOKLANDS 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 THE DIVINE, BROOKLANDS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 78913 90316
Details
SJ79SE BROOKLANDS BROOKLANDS ROAD (west side)
698-1/549-7/549 Church of St John the Divine
3/10/74 II*
Church. 1864-68, by Alfred Waterhouse. Coursed sandstone rubble, red tiled roof. Gothic style. Nave with double north and south transepts, north porch, chancel with north vestry (plus C20 additions to west end). The buttressed 6-bay nave has large 2-centred arched 3-light windows with cusped lights and large emphatic unfoiled circular tracery, linked by a drip-band which carries round the buttresses; square corner pinnacles; and a very large 6-light west window (the lower part now concealed by additions at this end). The gabled porch to the 1st bay on the north side has a cusped opening under a 2-centred arch with paired shafts; wrought-iron gates and immediately inside these a panelled screen and door. The transepts have large 3-light windows similar to those of the nave but with spherical triangles over the outer lights, and roofs with bands of green fishscale slates and red cockscomb ridge tiles. The chancel has (inter alia) a large rose window with circular tracery, a niche below this with the eagle emblem of the Evangelist, and a band of raised lettering. The porch to the north vestry has a moulded doorway with innner lintel inscribed "LET THY PRIESTS BE CLOTHED WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS". Interior: yellow brick with some polychromatic patterning; steep open roof; one south nave window with stained glass by Morris & Co., 1897 (Pevsner).
This building was formerly listed in the City of Manchester.
Listing NGR: SJ7891390316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436249
- 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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