Church of St John the Divine
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384458
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384458
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Divine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE, CHURCH STREET
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 DIVINE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 54839 04696
Details
WIGAN
SD50SW CHURCH STREET, Lamberhead Green
24-1/4/130 (East side)
Church of St John the Divine
II
Church. 1830-32, by Rickman and Hutchinson (dated 1832 at west
end). Red brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone
dressings and slate roof. Gothick style.
PLAN: 9-bay nave with galleried north and south aisles under
carried-down roofs (except to the westernmost bay), short
sanctuary.
EXTERIOR: the gabled west facade, which is symmetrical, has
clasping corner pilasters, with a small blind lancet in each,
terminating as stone turrets which have louvred lancets and
embattled parapets; a shallow gabled porch in the centre with
buttresses, a 2-centred arched double-chamfered doorway and a
steeply-pitched gable (with shield dated 1832) rising into the
centre light of the west window, which is a stepped
triple-lancet with hood-moulds; a small louvred lancet above,
and a stone parapet. The aisles, of 8 narrow bays with simple
buttresses which have one offset and a gablet, have one tall
lancet in each bay, with sillband and hood-mould, and parapets
carried round from the front, and a shallow porch in the
westernmost bay, that on the south side with a 2-centred
arched moulded stone doorway and that on the north side
simpler. The sanctuary, of one short bay, has a stepped triple
lancet east window (and C20 additions at ground floor level).
INTERIOR: vestibule with symmetrical winding stone staircases
to the gallery; 3-sided gallery of 6 x 3 bays with a
square-panelled wooden front, supported, by slender cast-iron
columns with annular caps and linked by wide segmental arches
with open spandrels; moulded plaster wall corbels to a flat
ceiling with moulded ribs; original pitch-pine pews with brass
umbrella.
Forms group with boundary wall to churchyard (qv).
Listing NGR: SD5483904696
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484892
- 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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