Church Of St. John

SD 57 SW YEALAND CONYERS CHURCH LANE

4/286 Church of St. John 2. 5. 1968 II

Church, 1838, 1861 and 1882. Limestone rubble with limestone dressings to the earlier part, sandstone dressings to the later chancel, a pebbledashed tower and slate roof. Church comprises a nave, a chancel with a roof of steeper pitch, and a north aisle with pitched roof. A tower rises above the west wall with a projecting battlemented parapet. The doorway is in the west wall, flanked by buttresses and with a pointed head and hood mould of square section. Beyond on each side is a lancet window with hood mould, with buttresses at the corners of the wall. Above the doorway is a string course, with a 1st floor window with pointed head, drip mould and wooden Y-tracery. The south nave wall is of 5 bays separated by buttresses, with lancet windows and with a continuous drip course of square section. The east bay is reconstructed, with sandstone dressings. The chancel has 2 paired cusped lights in the south wall. The east wall has 3 large buttresses with a 3-light window of intersecting tracery with trefoils. The east wall of the north aisle has windows with 2 cusped lights and a trefoil, with a similar window in its west wall. The north wall has 4 sandstone lancets with hood moulds.

Listing NGR: SD5070674828