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:
- 1392913
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-2005
- 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:
- 1392913
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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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:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 86670 06915
Details
ESKDALESIDE CUM UGGLEBARNBY
1320/0/10012 SLEIGHTS 12-JUL-05 Church of St John the Evangelist
II Church, 1895, by Ewan Christian, architect, built by Padbury and Son of Scarborough, and including stained glass by CE Kempe. Built in Grosmont sandstone ashlar with Westmoorland slate roof laid in diminishing courses. Early English style.
PLAN: Nave with single aisle and transept, both to north, with tower set in the angle between transept and chancel. Porch formed in west end of the north aisle.
EXTERIOR: The facades are plain-faced with simple, slightly battered plinth, the chancel marked with an additional simple string course immediately below window sill level. All windows are simple lancets with plain carefully cut mouldings, the east and west windows highlighted with simple hood moulds. Nave gable, chancel arch and chancel gable all capped by ornate stone crosses. The chancel has a triple lancet east window and a single and double lancet in the south wall. South wall of the nave has two double and one single lancet. The north wall of the aisle (with door, a single and a triple lancet window) is continuous with that of the north transept gable with its triple lancet and the base of the tower with its double lancet. The west end has a pair of single lancets to the nave and a triple lancet to the porch. The tower is capped by a plain parapet and pyramidal slate roof. North aisle with catslide roof continuous with nave roof externally, but with shallower pitch.
INTERIOR: Chancel: Windows with stained glass; hammer beam roof; ornamental oak panelled walls to just below window sill height, with oak reredos and altar also decorative, less ornamentation to choir stalls. Nave: all windows with stained glass, west windows and the two double lancets particularly notable; hammer beam roof; nave arcade on north side formed by two drum columns supporting pointed arches. North aisle: Windows are a triple lancet by Kempe 1903 and single lancet designed by local school children 1995; porch in west end of aisle with double doors to nave and externally, and a single door to the north aisle, lit by clear triple lancet. North transept: triple lancet by Kempe 1895, arch through to tower base filled with oak screen and door. Tower base houses the organ and vestry. Pews in nave, aisle and transept all face east and are set on raised parquet flooring.
Sources: Entries for Christian and Kempe in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2005 Oxford Univeristy Press.
The Church of St John the Evangelist in Sleights, one of Ewan Christian's last commissions, is of special architectural interest for its economical but high quality design of plan and detailing, its fine set of stained glass and complete set of wooden fixtures.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492984
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (2005)
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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