Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HAWES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384013
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HAWES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384013
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HAWES 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 BAPTIST, HAWES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Garsdale
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 74625 89544
Details
GARSDALE
SD78NW HAWES ROAD
162-1/11/220 (North side)
14/06/84 Church of St John the Baptist
II
Church. Rebuilt 1860 (dated on rainwater head); restored.
Sandstone rubble brought to courses, with freestone dressings,
graduated slate roof. Early English style.
PLAN: nave with west bellcote, south porch, chancel and north
vestry.
EXTERIOR: the 5-bay nave, with buttresses and a string-course,
has a gabled porch to the 1st bay, with a 2-centred arched
doorway and coped gable with an apex cross, and a simple
lancet in each of the other bays, with tinted geometrical
leaded glazing. Moulded cast-iron gutter on stone brackets,
and 2 downspouts with moulded rainwater hoppers dated "1860".
The west gable wall has 2 lancets, a trefoil above and between
them, and a 2-stage bellcote with 2 bells in the lower stage.
Small 1-bay chancel with triple-lancet east window; lean-to
vestry on north side.
INTERIOR: arch-braced queen-strut roof; Gothic-style pulpit;
Perpendicular-style choir screen to east bay of nave;
2-centred chancel arch. Various wall monuments, mostly C19,
including Thomas Dawson of Dandragarth (qv), d.1810, Edmund
Dawson "generosi", also of Dandragarth (d.1838); Rev. Edmund
Dawson, vicar of Alford, Lincs. (d.1852); and Rev.James Dawson
(d.1852) and his son James Edmund Dawson, MD. MCRS, LSA, (died
Liverpool, 1880).
Listing NGR: SD7462589544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484445
- 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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