CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383834
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383834
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dent
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD 75602 86947

Details

DENT

SD78NE DENTDALE 162-1/12/33 (North side) 14/06/84 Church of St John the Evangelist

GV II

Formerly known as: Kirkthwaite Chapel DENTDALE. Formerly known as: Cowgill Chapel DENTDALE. Church. 1837-8. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof. Early English style. Six-bay nave with west bellcote and short 1-bay chancel with attached vestry in north angle. EXTERIOR: simple buttresses to three-quarter height, one tall lancet in each bay except the first, which is wider and has a gabled wooden porch protecting a 2-centred arched doorway, and a square slated bellcote on the ridge with wooden louvres and a steep pyramidal roof with a weathervane. The west gable has a short central buttress flanked by lancets and an oculus above and between these. The chancel has a stepped triple-lancet east window. INTERIOR: single vessel with very small sanctuary; plastered walls; scissor roof trusses with kingposts; pitch-pine benches; organ in south-east corner. The south wall has 3 arched marble wall monuments commemorating members of the Elam family: (1) Robert Elam C.E., d.1855 at Thorns Hall (Sedbergh CP, qv); (2) John Elam, Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, d.1862 at Thorns Hall; (3) Catherine Elam, d.1874 and Lucy Elam, d.1883, both at Thorns Hall. (See also Monument to Lucy Elam, Dentdale, qv). The north wall has a sculpted wall monument with a seated angel inscribed "G.Nelson, Sculp." commemorating: Anne, widow of John Blackmore, d.1888 at Broadfield House (qv), her father Paul Nixon of Stone House (qv), d.1850, Anne his wife, d.1849, and also George Nelson, sculptor, died London 1888; and a smaller monument commemorating Dora Blackmore, d.1890 at Broadfield House. HISTORICAL NOTE: the subject of Professor Adam Sedgwick's "A Memorial to Cowgill Chapel" (1868): a plea for the ancient name of Cowgill to be retained. Forms group with associated gate piers (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7560286947

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Legacy System number:: 484266
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.