Church Of St John

SE 76 NW WELBURN CHURCH LANE (south side) 5/119 Church of St John

II Church. 1859-65. By Mallinson and Healey. Early English style. Cruciform plan with north-west tower and south-east vestry. Chiselled sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings; slate roof. 3-stage buttressed tower on tall plinth. Studded west door with decorative hinges beneath a pointed arch on slender shafts. Roundel with trefoil tracery to second stage. 2-light louvred bell-openings beneath pointed head-stopped hood-moulds to third stage. Broach spire with lucarnes, weathervane and cross. Nave west window of 4 lights with foiled intersecting tracery; north and south nave windows of 2 lights, alternately geometric and foiled intersecting tracery; transept windows of 3 lights with geometric tracery, between buttresses; east window of 4 lights with geometric tracery. All windows have pointed head-stopped hood-moulds. A string course at west door impost level becomes a continuous sill band around all parts of the church. Vestry has a pointed door to south and 2-light mullion and transom window to west. Coped gables with gable crosses throughout. Centre ridge stack to vestry. Interior: original fittings survive intact. East window by Hardman.

Listing NGR: SE7214667771