Church Of St John The Baptist

GARSDALE

SD78NW HAWES ROAD 162-1/11/220 (North side) 14/06/84 Church of St John the Baptist

II

Church. Rebuilt 1860 (dated on rainwater head); restored. Sandstone rubble brought to courses, with freestone dressings, graduated slate roof. Early English style. PLAN: nave with west bellcote, south porch, chancel and north vestry. EXTERIOR: the 5-bay nave, with buttresses and a string-course, has a gabled porch to the 1st bay, with a 2-centred arched doorway and coped gable with an apex cross, and a simple lancet in each of the other bays, with tinted geometrical leaded glazing. Moulded cast-iron gutter on stone brackets, and 2 downspouts with moulded rainwater hoppers dated "1860". The west gable wall has 2 lancets, a trefoil above and between them, and a 2-stage bellcote with 2 bells in the lower stage. Small 1-bay chancel with triple-lancet east window; lean-to vestry on north side. INTERIOR: arch-braced queen-strut roof; Gothic-style pulpit; Perpendicular-style choir screen to east bay of nave; 2-centred chancel arch. Various wall monuments, mostly C19, including Thomas Dawson of Dandragarth (qv), d.1810, Edmund Dawson "generosi", also of Dandragarth (d.1838); Rev. Edmund Dawson, vicar of Alford, Lincs. (d.1852); and Rev.James Dawson (d.1852) and his son James Edmund Dawson, MD. MCRS, LSA, (died Liverpool, 1880).

Listing NGR: SD7462589544