Church Of St John The Divine

The Church of St John the Divine, built in 1911 by Dudley Newman with carving by Esmond Burton, is a Grade II listed church located on Hewlett Street in Coppull. It is constructed from rock-faced stone and features a green slate roof. The church is designed in the Perpendicular style, incorporating some elements from the 12th and 13th centuries.

The structure includes a battlemented three-stage west tower with diagonal buttresses on the west side and angle buttresses on the east side. The tower has a traceried three-light west window, a polygonal stair turret at the southwest corner, and a belfry with two-light louvres on each side. Prominent gargoyles are positioned at the centers and corners of the band below the battlements, inspired by examples from Normandy. The nave consists of five bays, while the chancel has two bays, both featuring battlemented parapets and arched two-light windows with cusped tracery and hoodmoulds. The aisles contain three-light square windows with hoodmoulds, triple-chamfered jambs and heads, and cusped tracery. The first bay of the south aisle has a gabled porch with a battlemented parapet, a moulded arch, and diagonal buttresses. Adjacent to the south side of the chancel is a low vestry with similar buttresses and a parapet.

Inside, the church features a five-bay nave arcade supported by shafted columns with moulded polygonal caps. The moulding of the two-centred arches springs from the shafts, creating the appearance of an arch within an arch. Both the tower arch and chancel arch are similarly designed with shafts and moulding, and they include hoodmoulds. The aisle windows have slightly bowed straight labels with foliated stops. The nave and chancel boast arch-braced wooden roofs supported by wall posts on stone corbels, with figures depicted in the chancel. The south wall of the chancel features a piscina and sedilia (three seats) adorned with trefoil and mouchette tracery and a hoodmould. A sanctuary lamp, originally a miners lamp from Chisnall Hall colliery, the last coal mine in Coppull, is also present, along with a commemorative wall plaque for the Haydock family of Bogburn Hall and the USA. This church is a successful early 20th-century realization of the Gothic style and was a gift from James Darlington.