Church Of St John The Evangelist

BILSDALE MIDCABLE B 1257 East side SE 59 SE Church of St. John 18/4 23/6/66 the Evangelist II Parish church. 1896-8 by Temple Moore. Pecked coursed sandstone with dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone ridge and copings, stone spire. West tower, continuous nave and chancel, north aisle. Decorated style. Square tower of 3 stages with stepped diagonal buttresses, stepped and moulded plinth, Y-tracery west window with clock above. Small openings north and south, Y-traceried bell openings above. Short octagonal broach spire with lucarnes and vane. Stepped buttress bay divisions. North aisle under catslide roof. Cusped reticulated tracery to east window. Twin bootscrapers flank 4 steps to door. Interior plastered with stone dressings. Moulded and chamfered arches of 4-bay aisle dying into diagonal chamfered piers. East bay and eastward extension panelled off as vestry. Tall, pointed tower arch. Ribbed barreled nave roof and coffered tower roof. Good, apparently original woodwork including benches, pulpit, choir seating and desks. Chequered stone paving in slightly-raised chancel and sanctuary, and moulded piscina in south wall. Carved vestry door with monogram under long Caernarvon arch.

Listing NGR: SE5735894582