List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST JOHN
List entry Number: 1228363
Location
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHESTER ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Cheshire West and Chester | Unitary Authority | Hartford |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 18-Jul-1986
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 402983
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
HARTFORD C.P. CHESTER ROAD
SJ 67 SW
(South side)
4/36 Church of St.John
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- II
Church: dated 1875, and tower added 1887-9, both by John Douglas.
Dressed coursed buff sandstone with red sandstone dressings. Red tile
roof. 5-bay nave and aisles. 2-bay chancel with vestry to the south
and chapel to north, south and north porches and 4-stage west tower.
Timber-framed south porch on stone base has panelled bargeboards,
toothed tiebeam and chevron work in the gable. Bays of the aisle are
divided by buttresses and have pairs of double or triple, trefoil or
cinquefoil headed lancets. Clerestorey has 9 lancet windows regularly
placed under a continuous label mould. Similar windows and Caernarvon
arched doorways to vestry. East end has a giant arch on raking
pilasters which contains a triple lancet with minimal tracery, the
lights divided by chamfered pilasters with stopped heads. North side
is identical to the south. The tower has heavy clasping pilasters,
one of which contains a stair turret and rises above the top of the
tower. 3-light west window with sexfoil panel. 2nd stage has some
partially blind arcading, a clock in the 3rd and a pair of trefoil
headed louvred bell openings in the top stages. These have
triangular hoods with ball flower finials. Embattled parapet on
corbels.
Interior:- of rubble stone with ashlar dressings. 5-bay arcade of
chamfered arches on alternate circular and octagonal piers. The pairs
of aisle windows have splayed reveals and pointed heads and a
colonnette between the pair. Splayed reveals to clerestorey windows.
Wagon roof to nave. Simple tower arch carried on corbels has a wooden
Gothic screen with drop tracery. Double chancel arch on short
colonnettes. Chancel has a pair of unequal arches on an octagonal
pier to the north chapel and a more unequal pair on the south side
contains the organ and access to the vestry. Plaster and wooden
reredos of the Last Supper, in a Gothic gilded setting. Panelled roof
to the chancel.
Listing NGR: SJ6378872224
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National Grid Reference: SJ 63788 72224
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