Former Church Of St John

SD 82 SW RAWTENSTALL BACUP ROAD Cloughfold 6/152 - Former Church of St John

• II

Church, 1890, by Austin and Paley; now warehouse. Snecked sandtone, slate roof. On north-south axis: nave with low aisles, double transepts, base of intended south-west tower; in Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style. Buttressed gable to road has set-back upper wall with large 4-light traceried window in a recessed panel; to 1st bay on east side is a gabled porch with moulded arched doorway, front wall extended sideways each side to make buttresses, and circular side-wall window with flamboyant tracery; aisles have flat-headed 2-light windows, nave has 4 large segmental-head 4-light windows with Perpendicular tracery; twin-gabled transepts have tall 2-light window in each gable. Base of tower at south-west corner has diagonal buttresses, moulded arched doorway, a band of blind arcading above this, and a pyramidal roof. Interior: mostly obscured by present contents, but appears largely unaltered except where high chancel arch has been damaged by removal of Rood (now in Church of St. Nicholas, Church Street, Newchurch, q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD8204622692