Church Of St John The Baptist

SJ 46 NW GUILDEN SUTTON C.P. CHURCH LANE (West Side)

5/10 Church of St John the Baptist.

1/6/1967

GV II

Church: 1815 (Pevsner and Hubbard), but nave has C16 work. English garden wall bond orange brick with lines of vertical timbers and wall plate visible in nave. Welsh slate roof. 5-bay nave and chancel in one range, south porch and octagonal louvred bellcote. Dentil brick cornice. Windows of nave and chancel are simple and have semi-circular brick heads. Gabled porch has a pair of half-glazed doors. East window, lancet shaped with 2 wooden mullions. Interior: Very plain with raised chancel and wooden chancel screen. Partly exposed kingpost trusses with diagonal braces, all heavily cusped. Circular stone front dated 1635 and doorway with twisted balusters dated 1698. Painted memorial plaque to Whitehead family, probably by Randle Holme III.

The former chancel blew down in 1802 and it is reported that Sir J T Stanley of Alderley rebuilt the church by 1810 when he sold the living. Ormerod G, History of Cheshire, 1819.

Listing NGR: SJ4489068181