Church of St John is a Grade II* listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 October 1995. Gate lodge.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- low-stair-martin
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1995
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
High Victorian Gothic Revival style with French influence. Squared rubble with dressed quoins and dressed banding and tracery, slate roof, red ridge tiles. The church is restrained in appearance in keeping with its rural setting, but strongly expressed and skilfully proportioned in High Victorian style. There is a bellcote at the west end, a gabled N porch, S vestry with chimney and plate tracery windows. The chancel is expressed externally beneath a lower roof, coped gable ends to nave and chancel have stone crucifix finials. The stone banding gives restrained polychromatic effect and it is enriched with quatrefoils on the chancel.
To the N of the church is a stone gabled entrance to churchyard with crucifix finial.
Aisleless; tall chancel arch with shafts with foliated caps, timber nave roof, 2 steps up to chancel, 1 step up to sanctuary, chancel has elaborate arch-braced ship's keel roof of European character with cusped and pierced windbraces, the walls have dark stone banding and a foliated cornice, reredos with marble shafts with foliated caps and cornice and scene of the Last Supper. Square stone font with marble shafts at W end, stone pulpit with arcading, simple bench seating. Organ by Charles Whitely & Co. Stained glass is a good early C20 scheme including a window with Welsh text with SS David and Garmon.
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