Church Of St John The Evangelist

SD 72 NE HASLINGDEN BLACKBURN ROAD Stone Fold

Church of St. John the 1/81 Evangelist - - II

Church, 1882, by Basil Champneys for Miss Martha Turner of Carter Place. Snecked sandstone, stone slate roof. Nave with west bellcote, south aisle under catslide roof, chancel with south-east organ house and vestry; in vernacular form with Decorated detail. Walls battered at lower level; 4-bay nave has on north side in 1st bay a gabled porch with moulded arch and slate-hung gable, in the other bays three large 3-light windows with different reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds, large 6-light traceried west window; chancel has a rectangular 2-light window with mouchettes in the head, a rectangular niche with similar tracery containing a statue of the Evangelist, and a large 5-light east window with flowing tracery. Roof carried to very low level over south aisle, the wall blind except for mullioned 4-light window at west end. Interior: aisle arcade of octagonal columns and double-chamfered 2-centred arches; king-post roof trusses to semi-circular vaulted roof (stencil decorated in chancel); semicircular triple-chamfered chancel arch; priest door with moulded surround, cusp-headed sedilia, carved wooden panelling in chancel; brass wall plaque lettered "+To the glory of God this Church was erected by Miss Martha Turner of Carter Place in this parish mdccc1xxxii+".

Listing NGR: SD7837225429