Church Of St John The Divine

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SD50SW CHURCH STREET, Lamberhead Green 24-1/4/130 (East side) Church of St John the Divine

II

Church. 1830-32, by Rickman and Hutchinson (dated 1832 at west end). Red brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Gothick style. PLAN: 9-bay nave with galleried north and south aisles under carried-down roofs (except to the westernmost bay), short sanctuary. EXTERIOR: the gabled west facade, which is symmetrical, has clasping corner pilasters, with a small blind lancet in each, terminating as stone turrets which have louvred lancets and embattled parapets; a shallow gabled porch in the centre with buttresses, a 2-centred arched double-chamfered doorway and a steeply-pitched gable (with shield dated 1832) rising into the centre light of the west window, which is a stepped triple-lancet with hood-moulds; a small louvred lancet above, and a stone parapet. The aisles, of 8 narrow bays with simple buttresses which have one offset and a gablet, have one tall lancet in each bay, with sillband and hood-mould, and parapets carried round from the front, and a shallow porch in the westernmost bay, that on the south side with a 2-centred arched moulded stone doorway and that on the north side simpler. The sanctuary, of one short bay, has a stepped triple lancet east window (and C20 additions at ground floor level). INTERIOR: vestibule with symmetrical winding stone staircases to the gallery; 3-sided gallery of 6 x 3 bays with a square-panelled wooden front, supported, by slender cast-iron columns with annular caps and linked by wide segmental arches with open spandrels; moulded plaster wall corbels to a flat ceiling with moulded ribs; original pitch-pine pews with brass umbrella. Forms group with boundary wall to churchyard (qv).

Listing NGR: SD5483904696