Church Of St John

SOUTHPORT

SD31SW ST JOHN'S ROAD, Birkdale 664-1/3/14 (North side) Church of St John

II

Church. 1890 enlarged 1903-9. By Paley and Austin. Common brick in English garden wall bond (5 plus one courses), with dressings of glazed red brick, red terracotta and some timber-framing; bellcote-spire clad with green slates. STYLE: Arts-and-Crafts with Perpendicular details. PLAN: nave with north and south aisles embracing double north and south transepts, chancel with parallel south chapel, north vestry. EXTERIOR: the south side has a timber-framed gabled porch to the first bay of the aisle, a square 3-light window to the right of this, then the large coupled transepts, each with a central buttress with off-sets flanked by tall 3-stage 2-light windows which have Tudor-arched lights, traceried heads and hoodmoulds; the exposed left side of the west transept and the apexes of both gables have timber studwork. The chapel at the east end has a square 3-light window. At the west end the nave has prominent buttresses with off-sets and a wide segmental-headed 6-light west window with chamfered brick surround, terracotta mullions and Perpendicular tracery in the head; and on the roof a slated bellcote with wooden traceried 2-light windows and a broached spire with slender metal finial. The chancel has a large 2-centred arched east window of 1:3:1 lights in similar style to the west window. INTERIOR: exposed brick; 4-bay arcades of 2-centred arches on chamfered columns without capitals.

Listing NGR: SD3304614504