Church of St John Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST, MURRAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1386159
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1980
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST, MURRAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1386159
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1980
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST, MURRAY STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST, MURRAY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 82720 00884
Details
SALFORD
SD8200NE MURRAY STREET 949-1/10/85 (West side) 18/01/80 Church of St John Evangelist
II
Parish church. 1836-39. By Richard Lane. Chancel added 1846 by Gregan. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. Gothic style, reminiscent of a Commissioners' Church, but in fact a privately-endowed building. W tower and clasping porches, nave and chancel. EXTERIOR: 3-stage tower, with 3-light Decorated window, and 2-tier window and clock over. Paired bell chamber lights and embattled parapet. Angle buttresses form tall pinnacles. 2-light Decorated windows with transoms to W of porches, which have chamfered arched doors to N and S. 6-bay nave divided by buttresses, with 2-light Decorated transomed window in each bay. Embattled parapet. Chancel a later addition. Rock faced coursed and squared rubble, with steep graded slate roof. 3 bays, with Decorated windows and N vestry with stilted arched door and 5-light mullioned window. 5-light Decorated east window. Organ chamber and vestry in cross gable to S. INTERIOR: nave arcade of 6 bays with slender octagonal shafts on high bases, the original galleries now removed. Minton tiled floor. Wood-traceried panelled bench ends and dado wall panelling. Later C19 wrought-iron chancel screen, removed from Porthill, Staffordshire. Baptistery below tower with shallow arch from nave, and marble font. Internal window to tower chamber over. Chancel has richly coloured Minton encaustic floor tiles and stone-traceried reredos, flanked by tiled arched panels coloured with majolica glazes. Texts (Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer and Credo) with embossed lettering set in decorative borders, probably late C19, Minton Hollins. Ogee-arched and crocketed tomb recess in N wall to John Clowes, the patron of the church, d1846. Stained glass by Hardman in E window, and possibly N and S chancel windows; S window with angels in quatrefoils attributed to Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. In nave, 3 N windows have glass by Gilbert Shaw, one dated 1861. Internal W window from the studio of Kempe, 1903. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-: 393; Glazed Expressions (Newsletter of the Tile Society): Skinner Peter: "Wall Tiles in Churches": 1987-).
Listing NGR: SD8272000884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471583
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969), 393
Skinner, P, Glazed Expressions in Wall Tiles in Churches, (1987)
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