Church Of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. Church.

Church Of St John

WRENN ID
winding-gutter-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 1985
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SE 20 NW DENBY LANE Upper Denby 4/29 Church of St. John

II

Church. 1842-3, chancel and porch 1900. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof with gable copings and moulded eaves cornice. Square 3-tier, west tower with porch on south side. Diagonal buttresses to lower tier. Blind oculus to 2nd tier, south side. 3-light square headed, louvred bell-chamber openings, with arched lights. Lancet west window. Plain parapet with pointed octagonal pinnacles. 6-light transomed east window with blind lower tier and intersecting tracery to upper part. Five 2-light nave windows with Y-tracery.

Interior: 4-bay arcade to left and right on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Similar responds. Organ to left. Moulded chancel arch. Choir in chancel. Vestry to south side of chancel. Wooden tunnel vaulted nave roof with stencilling. Close, braced trusses to chancel roof.

Galleries and box pews removed 1900.

A. R. Bielby, Churches & Chapels of Kirklees, 1978.

Listing NGR: SE2263107160

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