Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484266
- 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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