Church of St John

CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1362391
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1983
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1362391
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1983
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
Blackpool (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 30913 36285

Details

SD 33 NW BLACKPOOL CHURCH STREET

2/4 Church of St. John

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Church, 1878, by Garlick Park and Sykes. Stone with slate roofs. Nave with low aisles, tall transepts, apsidal chancel, south west tower. Early English style. Tower of 4 stages with angled buttresses rising to prominent pinnacles and finials, 2 tall belfry louvres on each side. Aisles have 3 triple-lancet windows, nave has three 3-light plate-traceried windows under 2-centred arches. Transepts have 2 tall lancet-shaped windows with plate-tracery; chancel has three 3-light windows with similar tracery. Interior: nave arcade of cylindrical columns with circular caps simply moulded, supporting three 2-centred arches with moulded soffits. Gallery at west end. Wall posts on corbels at clerestory level; wagon roof with small hammer beams linked by metal tie-rods. Chancel has screen in Gothic style, and wooden panelling with Gothic decoration. Pulpit has suspended sounding-board with domical cap of intricate open-work.

Listing NGR: SD3091336285

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183660
Legacy System:
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