Church Of St John

SE 12 NE SPENBOROUGH MB CHURCH STREET CLECKHEATON 1/100 Church of St John

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Gothic Revival Church. The west tower only remains of the Commissioners' Church of 1830-32 by Peter Atkinson Junior. Chancel of 1864. -The rest of the church 1886-8 by William Swindon Barber. Hammer dressed stone. Slate roof with gable copings. West tower, 5-bay nave with lean-to buttressed aisles, and south porch, 2-bay chancel with vestry wing. Triple lancets to clerestory, paired lancets with stained glass to aisles. 2-light windows with traceried head and hood mould to chancel. East window is of 5-lights with large 8-foiled circle in head. 3-tier square tower with west lancet and south doorway. Two lancets and one blind clock face to 2nd tier. Paired louvred lancets to 3rd tier. Large angle buttresses to 1st tier and slender clasping buttresses to 2nd and 3rd tiers. Small parapet on moulded corbel brackets. Formerly the tower had 4 slender pinnacles with conical tops.

Spacious interior with 5-bay arcade to each side on short columns. Clerestory and aisle windows have detached colonnettes with foliated capitals. Chancel arch. Carved oak chancel screen of 1910 with 12 Apostles carved at base and richly carved frieze of vines. Similarly carved pulpit of same date. Richly carved stone reredos depicting the Last Supper.

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1979.

Listing NGR: SE1924925393