Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1362115
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1362115
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOUTH ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOUTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bretherton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47574 20432
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/08/2011
SD 42 SE
3/27
BRETHERTON
SOUTH ROAD
Church of St. John the
Baptist
(Formerly listed as Church of St. John the Evangelist)
GV
II
Church, 1840, by Edmund Sharpe; chancel and organ house 1909. Sandstone,
shallow pitched slate roof. Nave incorporating porch, west steeple, in simple
Gothic style; chancel and organ house in Perpendicular style. Slender west
tower with diagonal buttresses, large open 2-centred porch arches on 3 sides,
bands on 3 levels, the topmost stepped over a single belfry louvre on each
side, stepped parapet, crocketed corner pinnacles, slim octagonal spire.
Five-bay buttressed nave has 4 square-headed windows with hoodmoulds, each of
2 cusped lights, and at the west end a gablet over a 2-centred arched doorway
with a lancet above (this feature on north side lacking door). Chancel, under
higher and steeper roof, 2 bays, two 3-light windows with Perpendicular
tracery, and east window of 5 lights with similar tracery. Interior: nave
ceiled except at west end which has gallery on 4 slim iron columns with
foliated openwork brackets; gallery staircase with closed string, stick
balusters, ramped handrail; chancel has wagon roof, and at the junction on the
north side half of an arch which dies into the wall but is continued
externally on the wall of the organ house (possibly an architectural joke).
Listing NGR: SD4757420432
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184278
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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