Church Of St John

STONE

SJ93SW GRANVILLE TERRACE, Stone 651-1/4/22 (North East side) Church of St John

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Congregational church, now Methodist/United Reformed church. 1870. By G.Bidlake; for J.Crossley of Halifax. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, some plastered brick; slate roof with brick stack. Decorated Gothic style. Rectangular structure with tower and rear vestry. Front has gabled centre with flanking elements under hipped roofs; tower to left end. Plinth, sill course and coped gable. Central entrance has shafts and pointed tympanum, plain paired doors; similar entrances to flanking elements. 5-light window with Geometrical Decorated tracery, small lights to flanking elements. 2-bay applied arcades flank entrance, with outer lancets and inner incised panels, flanking offset buttresses; right end is canted. 3-stage tower has traceried lancet to 2nd stage; top stage has paired bell openings with trefoil heads in square-headed recesses with colonnettes, pierced iron screens; clock above has flanking traceried panels; top cornice and broach spire. Left return of 5 bays, the 2nd breaks forward under gable; offset buttresses and top parapet; 2-light segmental-pointed windows to lower level; 2-light pointed windows to upper level, the hood moulds are sharper. Vestry to left end has entrance in weathered projection with oriel above, which has 2-light plate tracery window to left; rounded angle and segmental-pointed entrance to return, most of which, with rear, is plastered; brick stack. Right return similar: no gabled bay but canted projection to left end. INTERIOR: gallery on iron columns to all 4 sides has timber front with arched panels and enriched iron detailing; large pulpit has arcaded balustrade and communion rail; organ in arched recess behind gallery; pews with arcaded fronts. A good example of its type with well preserved interior. An important landmark to the town. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 269).

Listing NGR: SJ9018634258