Church Of St John

UTKINTON C.P. STABLE LANE SJ 56 NE (East Side) Cotebrook 6/32 Church of St John

GV II

Church: 1874-5 by G E Street. Tooled red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Red tile roof and pierced ridge. 4-bay nave under a steeply pitched roof, short chancel over a basement vestry and a small north-east tower. Small rectangular nave windows of 3 trefoil headed lights. Chancel has a sill band and 2 lancets over a basement with a door with a shaped Caernarvon arch and a 2-light chamfered mullioned window. East end is divided by a low buttress and has a triple lancet window with weak trefoil heads. Small rectangular tower in the angle between nave and chancel has buttresses to 1st storey. A band rises above the clock and above this are thin louvred lancet bell openings. Pyramidal cap with weathervane. West window has an interesting arrangement of 4 lancets with trefoil heads and a quatrefoil above. To left side is a chamfered and moulded 2-centred arched entrance to an internal porch with a simpler door. Interior: Nave contains the porch. Windows have splayed reveals and segmental heads. Arch-braced roof with cut wind-braced purlins. Chancel arch has a triple hollow chamfered moulding and the chancel is vaulted in brick with bands of stone. Memorial east window to Sir P de M G Egerton by Kempe 1882. C17 painting of the Adoration of the Magi over the altar. Octofoil font on cluster of 8 shafts.

Listing NGR: SJ5712565567