Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, NORMANBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329635
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, NORMANBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329635
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, NORMANBY 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 EVANGELIST, NORMANBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 53539 20722
Details
SOUTH BANK NORMANBY ROAD, east side NZ 52 SW 3/105 Church of St. John the Evangelist - II
Church, 1893/95 by J.M. Bottomley (Middlesbrough); and Allison Brothers (Middlesbrough), builders. Brick; red sandstone dressings to interior. Welsh slate roofs, now covered with bitumen. Stone gable copings. Continuous clerestoried nave and chancel with aisles, half-octagonal apse, south organ chamber and west porch. Early English style. Gabled porch has boarded double doors in pointed surround of 3 chamfered orders under hoodmould; circular plate-traceried window in tympanum above. Porch flanked by one-window lean-to wings. 3 levels of windows in west end under similar circular window, now used as ventilator, in gable. Finial missing. Clerestorey has 9 windows in nave and 2 in chancel. 5-bay nave with offset buttresses between bays. 3-bay north chancel aisle. Pent organ chamber. 5-window apse with half-pyramidal roof. All windows have double-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds. Roofs have shaped rafter-ends. Interior: Windows in triple-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds. 5-bay nave arcades, under continuous hoodmould, have short round columns with roughly-dressed capitals and moulded bases. Chancel arch has 2 plain orders and nook shafts. Similar arcades to sanctuary and organ chamber. Embattled wood wall plates; barrel roofs. Sanctuary has patterned polychrome encaustic tiled floor, and wood panelling, below sills, with paintings of saints and coats-of-arms. Large painting of Ascension behind altar. Good panelling, with enriched mouldings and door architrave, 1936 by Thompson (Kilburn) on north wall of chancel. Octagonal pulpit c.1916, has carved panelling and applied Ionic Order with inscribed frieze, and short stair with turned balusters and panelled newel. Matching low chancel screen. Organ, 1904 by Abbot and Smith (Leeds), recently rebuilt, has good pine-panelled case with cusped panels. Carved wood rood c.1920, suspended from chancel arch. Mid C20 church hall adjoining east end is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ5353920722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60370
- 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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