Church of St John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic Church)

Church of St John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic Church), Long Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262689
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1994
List Entry Name:
Church of St John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic Church)
Statutory Address:
Church of St John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic Church), Long Street
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262689
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1994
List Entry Name:
Church of St John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic Church)
Statutory Address 1:
Church of St John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic Church), Long Street

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Church of St John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic Church), Long Street

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Easingwold
National Grid Reference:
SE 52901 69497

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 June 2025 to reformat the text to current standards

SE 5269
200- /9/10002

EASINGWOLD
LONG STREET
Church of St John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic Church)

II
Roman Catholic church. 1830-33 by J A Hansom, altered 1870 by Hadfield & Sons of Sheffield. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Raised coped gables with kneelers. Plinth.

Single cell church with western porch. Gothic Revival style. West front has projecting single storey porch with buttresses and a raised coped gable with kneelers and a cross finial. Central pointed arch doorway with double plank doors in a chamfered surround with hood mould. Behind a tall triple lancet set within three tall lancets with round columns and double chamfered arches. Above a gabled bellcote with a pointed arch and bell. At the corners diagonal buttresses with set-offs. Eitherside five tall lancets in chamfered openings with buttresses between, the south side has the eastern two bays masked by a later brick lean-to.

Interior: has panelled wooden roof a wooden west gallery and late C19 pews installed 1934. The elaborate Gothic style altar and reredos is stone with polished marble columns, designed by Joseph Hansom Jnr in 1870.

Listing NGR: SE5290169497

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
382348
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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