• Research

  • Strategies
  • Archaeology
  • Buildings
  • Coastal & Maritime
  • Landscapes & Areas
  • Heritage Science Research
  • Social & Economic Research

  
• Archives & Collections

  • National Monuments Record

  
• Heritage Protection
  • Heritage Protection Reform
  • Heritage Protection Process
  • National Heritage Protection Plan
• Advice

  • Our Planning Role
  • Conservation Principles
  • Government Planning Policy
  • Working with Heritage Organisations
  • Advice by Topic

  
• Publications

  • Guidebooks
  • Informed Conservation

  
• Funding

  • Third Party Investment Principles
  • Other Funding

  
• Training & Skills

  • Training Schemes
  • HELM Training
  • Improving Practice

  

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 THE EVANGELIST

List entry Number: 1356796

Location

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURCH STREET

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Bolton	Metropolitan Authority

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 31-May-1966

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System: LBS

UID: 210515

Asset Groupings

This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information.

List entry Description

Summary of Building

Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.

Reasons for Designation

Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.

History

Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.

Details

KEARSLEY CHURCH STREET SD 70 NW (east end) Farnworth

9/34 Church of St. John the 31/5/66 Evangelist

G.V. II

Church. 1826, chancel 1871. Stone with slate roof. Nave, west tower and chancel, south vestry and north organ loft. 5- bay nave has sill course, and 2-light windows, most with segmental transoms, between weathered buttresses; top cornice and parapet. Tower has octagonal turrets and string courses. Pointed entrance with timber fanlight; 2-light window louvred bell-openings. Cornice and embattled parapet; turrets project above parapet, originally capped with pinnacles. Flanking porches have 2-light straight-headed windows with transoms, canted angles and north and south entrances. 3-bay chancel has 5-light east window and high 2-light north and south windows. Vestry has 2-light windows flanking entrance with shouldered lintel. Organ loft similar to vestry. Interior: Nave has 3 galleries on octagonal columns; pointed arcading to fronts. Flat ceiling has ribs and bosses. Octagonal font has moulded shaft and panelled sides. Arms of George I to west gallery. Chancel has king and queen post roof; 2-bay arcades with quatrefoil columns to organ loft and vestry. Stalls have elaborate timber fronts. Pulpit, 1907, timber on stone quatrefoil column. Parclose screen to vestry, which projects into nave. Panelled east wall with cresting. Good C19 stained glass to east and south.

Listing NGR: SD7439605844

Selected Sources

Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details

National Grid Reference: SD 74396 05844

Map

This copy shows the entry on 21-May-2013 at 03:52:00.