Church Of St John The Evangelist

TA 07 NE FOLKTON VILLAGE STREET (north side)

5/36 Church of Saint John the 30.6.66 Evangelist

GV II*

Church. C13 with C12 origins; C13 tower with upper stage of 1877-81; chancel shortened 1772; south side of nave rebuilt C19; re-roofed 1906. Herringbone-tooled sandstone and sandstone ashlar; slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel. 3-stage embattled tower with angle buttresses and staircase turret has slit windows to two lower stages; 2-light pointed bell openings under pointed arches to third stage. Pointed south door in quoined opening under corbelled dripmould. Two flat-topped 3-light windows with panel tracery to right. Similar window of C15 inserted in north wall, interrupting impost band. C13 trefoil-headed lancet to left. Further similar openings blocked in north and south walls of curtailed chancel. 1854 east window of 3 pointed lights with small trefoil window above. Interior: C13 double-chamfered chancel arch on C12 responds of three shafts with scallop and volute capitals, one forming a rabbit's head. C13 triple- chamfered tower arch. Deeply-splayed tower lancet. Blocked round-arched doorway in nave north wall. Fragments of medieval painted glass incorporated in north window. Norman tub font with cable mouldings to top and bottom. Monuments; to Rev. W. Minithorpe (d. 1774) by Chambers of Scarborough; to John (d. 1316) and Edwin (d. 1821) Minithorpe by Taylor of York.

Listing NGR: TA0536079689