Church of St John Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330310
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330310
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST, CHURCH 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 EVANGELIST, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashton Hayes and Horton-cum-Peel
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 50714 69811
Details
SJ 56 NW ASHTON C.P. CHURCH ROAD (West Side)
3/2 Church of St John Evangelist.
GV II
Church: 1849 by Shellard at the expense of William Atkinson, vestry added and chancel altered in 1900 by Douglas and Minshull, north chapel of 1932 by Theodore Fyfe. Tooled ashlar buff sandstone. Lakeland green slate roof. 4-bay nave and 2-bay chancel, north aisle and chapel in separate range, south porch and vestry, 3-stage west tower and spire. Gabled south porch with angle buttresses has moulded pointed arched doorcase with label mould. Nave and aisle have bays divided by buttresses and 2-light windows with cinquefoil-headed lights and panel tracery. Label moulds, alternately on carved head corbels. Octagonal vestry with flat roof has chamfered rectangular windows. Similar windows in chancel and a 4-light east window with the same detailing. Tower has a plinth, diagonal buttresses, plain bands at each floor, and an embattled parapet. Stair turret projects at north-east corner. 3-light west window with transom, clock in 2nd stage and a 3-light louvred bell opening. Recessed spire with beading along the arrises, and lucarnes. Interior: simple with 4-bay arcade to north aisle on octagonal piers. Arch-braced collar roof. Chancel arch on engaged colonnettes. Chancel has similar but painted roof. Aisle chapel dedicated to the memory of Ernest Johnson has a barrel vaulted ceiling with ribs and a flattened apsidal end with the vault sprung from colonnettes. Pulpit in Art Nouveau manner with pierced sprays of roses. (Pevsner and Hubbard).
Listing NGR: SJ5071469811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55705
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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