Church Of St John The Baptist And Attached Boundary Wall And Gates

SHEFFIELD

SK38NW PENISTONE ROAD 784-1/5/588 (East side) 28/06/73 Church of St John the Baptist and attached boundary wall and gates

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Parish church and attached boundary wall and gates. 1874. By JB Mitchell-Withers. North-east vestry early C20. Coursed squared stone, brick interior, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with single gable and single side wall stone stacks. Gothic Revival style. Chamfered plinth, coped gables. PLAN: chancel, vestries, south transept, nave with clerestory and aisles, south porch, south-west tower. EXTERIOR: blank sided chancel has a plain triple lancet to east. Flat roofed north-east vestry has a Tudor arched door to east and 3 lancets to north. South-east vestry has 2 lancets to south and door to east. South transept has a wheel window above and 2 single lancets below. Clerestory has 4 double lancets each side. West end has flanking buttresses and a wheel window with 2 single lancets below it. Aisles have 3 double lancets to east and a single one to west. South aisle has gabled porch with plain chamfered doorway. North aisle has a similar doorway. West ends have 2 single lancets. Thin square tower, 3 stages, has string course and a single buttress. Single window on lower stage. 2-light windows at different levels on the upper stage. Traceried wooden belfry with flared pyramidal slate roof with finial. INTERIOR: has rendered chancel with wagon roof and double chamfered arch with shaft imposts. Each side has a doorway. North side has an aumbry, south side a double sedilia with detached shaft. East end has a Decorated style wooden reredos. Nave has 4 bay arcades with alternating round and octagonal piers, stiff-leaf capitals and chamfered arches. Scissor braced roof. West end has single door to tower. Aisles have lean-to roofs and pedimented draught screens. FITTINGS include C20 stalls and benches, and C19 traceried ashlar pulpit and square font with C20 spire cover. 1898 stained glass window by Kayll & Co., and 5 early C20 windows. Decorated style wooden triptych war memorial, c1920. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, attached stone boundary wall with chamfered coping topped with railing and to right, a pair of gabled square piers and gates. To left, a plainer pair of gate piers with a pedestrian gate. Approx 80m long. (Researches by G Hague, Sheffield City Council).

Listing NGR: SK3362589946

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.