Church of St John the Divine
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, HEWLETT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281357
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, HEWLETT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281357
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, HEWLETT STREET
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, HEWLETT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coppull
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 56042 14230
Details
SD 51 SE COPPULL HEWLETT STREET
8/90 Church of St. John the Divine - - II
Church, 1911, by Dudley Newman with carving by Esmond Burton. Rock faced stone, green slate roof. West tower, nave with aisles, chancel, in Perpendicular style with some C12/C13 details. Battlemented 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses to west and angle buttresses to east, traceried 3-light west window, battlemented polygonal stair turret at south west corner, 2-light belfry louvre in each side, prominent gargoyles at centres and corners of band below battlements (derived from examples in Normandy); nave of 5 bays and chancel of 2 bays have battlemented parapets, arched 2-light windows with cusped tracery and hoodmoulds; aisles have 3-light square windows with hoodmoulds, triple- chamfered jambs and heads, and cusped tracery; 1st bay of south aisle has a gabled porch with battlemented parapet, moulded arch, and diagonal buttresses; to south side of chancel a low vestry with similar buttresses and parapet. Interior: 5-bay nave arcade of shafted columns with moulded polygonal caps to the shafts; moulding of 2-centred arches springs from the shafts, giving the appearance of an arch within an arch; tower arch and chancel arch are similarly shafted and moulded, and have hoodmoulds; aisle windows have slightly bowed straight labels with foliated stops. Nave and chancel have arch-braced wooden roofs supported by wall posts on stone corbels (figured in chancel). South wall of chancel has piscina and sedilia (3 seats) with trefoil and mouchette tracery and a hoodmould. Sanctuary lamp which was miners lamp used at Chisnall Hall colliery, the last coal mine in Coppull; commemorative wall plaque to family of Haydock of Bogburn Hall (q.v.) and USA. Successful early C20 realisation of Gothic style; gift of James Darlington.
Listing NGR: SD5604214230
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357607
- 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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