Church Of St John The Evangelist

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE BERNARD STREET 784-1/6/78 Church of St John the Evangelist 28/06/73

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Formerly known as: Church of St John the Evangelist PARK HILL. Parish church. 1836-38. By ME Hadfield. Altered c1890 by EM Gibbs. Late C20 additions to north and east. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate and lead roofs. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: chancel, porches, nave, west tower and spire, chapels and meeting rooms. EXTERIOR: single bay chancel has to east a graduated triple lancet. On either side, a lean-to porch with round-arched east window. South porch has round-arched doorway. To north-east, a single storey octagonal addition with flat roof, linked to the original building by a corridor with a transomed 5-light wooden framed window. On the north side, a double door. 7 bay nave has plinth, buttresses, moulded eaves and coped gables, the east one with a gable stack. On each side, 7 tall single lancets with hoodmoulds. West end has diagonal buttresses topped with pinnacles. At the west end of the north aisle, a round-arched doorway. Square west tower, 2 stages, has angle buttresses to the lower stage, and clasping buttresses above, topped with pinnacles. Lower stage has to west a Norman style doorway with dogtooth ornament under a steep gable, and to north and south, a round-arched window. Taller upper stage is blank to east and on the other sides has 3 tall lancet bell-openings with a clock above them. Octagonal broach spire has ornamental bands and a single tier of 4 gabled lucarnes, plus finial. To north, 2 linked mid C20 octagonal additions, yellow brick with buttressed blue brick basements. Larger addition, to east, has square truncated pyramidal roof. To south, a tall 5-light window, and to east, a flat-roofed projection with a single lancet to east. Smaller addition, to west, has flat roof and similar 3-light window. Corridor adjoining church has 2 tall single windows. INTERIOR not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 458).

Listing NGR: SK3642387584