Church of St John
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278838
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278838
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, SCHOOL 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, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burwardsley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 51550 56505
Details
SJ 55 NW BURWARDSLEY C.P. SCHOOL LANE (North Side)
6/37 Church of St.John
II
Church: early Cl7, buttress dated 1730, restoration dated 1795. c.1885 bell turret, chancel and vestry. Ashlar buff sandstone and Welsh slate roof. 3-bay nave, l-bay chancel and side chapel, south porch. Coped gabled porch has semi-circular headed entrance with chamfered segmental doorcase behind. Bays of nave divided by buttresses and have 2 or 4-light mullioned windows with arch-headed lights. East window has 3 round-headed lights, (the central one taller) under semi-circular label mould. Simple west window with Y-tracery. Inscription underneath reads "In the Year 1795 this chapel was put in perfect repair by the Revd. John Price the then Incumbent thereof." Bell turret with pyramidal,roof on ridge. Interior: Simple with C19 fittings. Rebated chancel arch to raised chancel, roof trusses on stone corbels, good small organ of c.1820.
Listing NGR: SJ5155056505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404756
- 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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