Church Of Saint John

HOWSHAM MAIN STREET SE 76 SW (east side) 5/63 Church of Saint John 10.10.66 GV I

Church. 1859-60. By G E Street for Hannah Cholmley. Gritstone ashlar with bands of sandstone, plain tile roof. Narthex, north-west tower, 3-bay nave, apsidal chancel with vestry to north. High Victorian Gothic. 3-stage tower with plinth, string course and lancet beneath quatrefoil to first stage. String course supports gabled second stage. Octagonal belfry with openings separated by alternate grey marble and orange stone columns, the grey ones having ornate Italianate capitals. Spirelet with lucarnes. To right: lean- to porch of 3 columns with Italianate capitals supporting massive dosserets carrying hipped roof. West door: 2-centred arch carried on responds with foliate capitals. Rose window to gable end. Square-headed door to tower. Nave: 2-light plate-traceried windows. Chancel: 3-light window to south, three 2-light windows to east end, all with plate tracery. Interior: font and pulpit with inlaid polychrome marble. Cinquefoil cusped chancel arch. Aumbry and double sedilia. Elaborately inlaid 3-panel reredos by Earp. Painted ceiling to chancel. Stained glass by Clayton and Bell. Hutchinson J and Joyce P, G E Street in East Yorkshire, Hull University, 1981. Muthesius S , The High Victorian Movement in Architecture, 1972, Pls 70 and 71. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1972.

Listing NGR: SE7374262893