Church Of St John

SK 00 NE WALL C.P. GREEN LANE (west side)

5/113 Church of St. John

• II

Parish church. 1839 by Scott and Moffat. Pale yellow chisel finished sandstone; tiled roofs on corbelled eaves with verge parapets. West steeple, nave and chancel. Steeple: a square tower of approximately 3 stages on a plinth with 2 stage diagonal buttresses is chamfered in at the last stage to form an octagonal base for the short spire; single stage of small lucarnes and a small slit trefoil-headed window over the pointed west door. Nave: of four bays on plinth and divided by two stage buttresses; two-light, square-headed trefoil-light windows to each bay. Chancel: lower than nave of similar details and of one short bay; 3-light, labelled pointed, Perpendicular-style window with panel tracery. Interior: plain-finished, plastered nave; single hammer beam and arch braced roof with double purlins and exposed rafters. Narrow, pointed chancel arch. Reading desk: fretted brasswork. Font: stone, octagonal, on stand. The church is skilfully set at the top of a rise making an attractive and prominent feature. B.O.E., p.291.

Listing NGR: SK0988006676