Church Of St John The Evangelist

SOUTH BANK NORMANBY ROAD, east side NZ 52 SW 3/105 Church of St. John the Evangelist - II

Church, 1893/95 by J.M. Bottomley (Middlesbrough); and Allison Brothers (Middlesbrough), builders. Brick; red sandstone dressings to interior. Welsh slate roofs, now covered with bitumen. Stone gable copings. Continuous clerestoried nave and chancel with aisles, half-octagonal apse, south organ chamber and west porch. Early English style. Gabled porch has boarded double doors in pointed surround of 3 chamfered orders under hoodmould; circular plate-traceried window in tympanum above. Porch flanked by one-window lean-to wings. 3 levels of windows in west end under similar circular window, now used as ventilator, in gable. Finial missing. Clerestorey has 9 windows in nave and 2 in chancel. 5-bay nave with offset buttresses between bays. 3-bay north chancel aisle. Pent organ chamber. 5-window apse with half-pyramidal roof. All windows have double-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds. Roofs have shaped rafter-ends. Interior: Windows in triple-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds. 5-bay nave arcades, under continuous hoodmould, have short round columns with roughly-dressed capitals and moulded bases. Chancel arch has 2 plain orders and nook shafts. Similar arcades to sanctuary and organ chamber. Embattled wood wall plates; barrel roofs. Sanctuary has patterned polychrome encaustic tiled floor, and wood panelling, below sills, with paintings of saints and coats-of-arms. Large painting of Ascension behind altar. Good panelling, with enriched mouldings and door architrave, 1936 by Thompson (Kilburn) on north wall of chancel. Octagonal pulpit c.1916, has carved panelling and applied Ionic Order with inscribed frieze, and short stair with turned balusters and panelled newel. Matching low chancel screen. Organ, 1904 by Abbot and Smith (Leeds), recently rebuilt, has good pine-panelled case with cusped panels. Carved wood rood c.1920, suspended from chancel arch. Mid C20 church hall adjoining east end is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ5353920722