Church Of St John The Evangelist

NZ 12 SE INGLETON FRONT STREET (South side)

2/21 Church of St. John the Evangelist

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Parish church. 1843 by Ignatius Bonomi and J.A. Cory. Dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings; steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs. Nave, chancel, south vestry and west porch. Early English style with plate-tracery windows consisting of paired lancets and quatrefoil under pointed hoodmoulds. Nave and chancel have double-chamfered plinth, sill band and flush quoins. Flat-buttressed, 3-bay nave has clasping buttresses at west end and at junction with chancel. West end has 5 stepped lancets, of which 3 are blocked, and a gabled bellcote, with single trefoil-headed opening, which projects slightly from wall on a row of 3 corbels. Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel has single lancet in north wall and 3 stepped lancets at east end. 2-bay south vestry attached to chancel has pointed-arched doorway, paired lancet opening and corniced ashlar stack. Gabled west porch has moulded, pointed arch of 2 orders. Roofs have flat-coped gables.

Interior: pointed rear-arches; double-chamfered chancel arch dying into wall; nave has barrel roof with 6 arched braces on mid-wall corbels; chancel has barrel roof-with 3 arched braces.

Listing NGR: NZ1738820514