Church Of St John

1. 5259 SUTTON ROAD

Church of St John TQ 1196 NW 8/39

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1. 1891-3 by Eley E White of Christopher and White. Tall stone Gothic church in the manner of J L Pearson. Tower and spire never built. Rubble stone walls, overall slate roof with slim lead fleche over chancel arch. Four bay nave, slightly narrower 3 bay chancel, 6 bay aisles ending one bay short of east end. West narthex with gabled south-west porch. Small gabled porch in south aisle. Square turrets, panelled and with steep pyramid caps at each corner of nave and at east corner of aisles. Buttresses with set-offs to aisles, narthex and chancel. Lancet windows, paired in tall clerestory, and aisles. Single in chancel. West 3-light window with quatrefoils in head, flanked by single lancets. Three lancets to east window. South-west porch with moulded arch, mouldings dying into piers, 5 stepped lancets above cut across by a string course. Open timber nave roof. Stone vaulted chancel. Ribs quadripartite. Clerestory openings shafted with shaft-rings. Elaborate east window treatment of 3 cusped arches on ringed shafts screening lancets behind. Large stone reredos and elaborate timber rood-screen. Building News 64 1893 867.

Listing NGR: TQ1119596748