Church Of St John The Evangelist

LANGCLIFFE SD 86 NW 2/1 Church of St John The Evangelist II Parish Church. 1851 by Mallinson and Healey of Bradford. Coursed rock-faced stone, ashlar dressings slate roof. Nave, chancel, south porch, north vestry and boiler house. Early English style. 3 bay nave with one single-light and two 2-light trefoil headed windows; stepped buttresses; octagonal bell turret with pyramidal hood at west gable end, and cruciform finial at east gable end. 2 bay chancel is narrower and lower than nave; south entrance has chamfered surround, decorated lintel and plank door; to left is a 2-light trefoil headed window with a cinquefoil above, to right is single-light trefoil-headed window. Angle buttresses to east end with a 3-light trefoil-headed window with 2 trefoils and 1 quatrefoil above. Cruciform finial at east gable end. South entrance porch has pointed arch with hoodmoulds and decorated stops; plank door and gable end cruciform finial. On north wall is lean-to vestry at west end of nave and lean-to boiler house against chancel. Source W A Shuffrey, The Churches of the Deanery of North Craven (1914) pp 223-227

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