Church Of St John

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1968 ISLAND ROAD, Barrow Island 708-1/13/82 (North side) Church of St John

GV II

Church, on site of earlier church. 1934-35. By Paget and Seeley of London. Ferroconcrete with concrete and green slate roofs. Cruciform plan with enlarged crossing and with lean-tos against the nave and transepts; arcaded loggia leads to west porch; chancel has round apse, south organ chamber with bell tower and south vestry. Byzantine style. Loggia: 6 round arches to west and 4 to east. Lean-to against nave lit by two 3-light mullioned windows with 12-pane iron casements in shallow round-arched recesses. Windows in same style flank a tall, round-arched transept window having later wooden casements with glazing bars. Projecting corners of the crossing have a small round-arched clerestorey window to each side. West end has 3 lancet windows. The slated lean-tos are steeply pitched; main roofs have shallow pitch and coped parapets. North side as south. Gabled vestry has door to east and mullioned windows as before; its pitched roof is set against the organ chamber having small round-arched windows and parapet from which rises the square bell tower with paired round-arched openings, parapet and pyramidal roof with cross. Tower is linked to south transept by an arch. Chancel windows as those to the transepts; slated periphery to concrete roof. INTERIOR: crossing forms main part of nave, round arches spring from floor level on each side; segmental arches to the chancel and the organ chamber. Concrete ceiling beams. Fittings: red sandstone font. Other fitments brought from earlier church: eagle lectern; wooden pulpit; choir stalls with carvings designed by Clifford Green and executed by FJ Lord 1922 (both of Barrow). C19 stained glass to west windows: 3 panels depict St John, St Mary and Dorcas. The old church consecrated 1879. Foundation stone of this church laid 15.12.1934; consecration 28.9.1935.

Listing NGR: SD1978568237