Description

ACCRINGTON ADDISON STREET
SD 72 NE
5/2 Church of St. John the Evangelist
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- II

Church, 1864-70, by H. Macauley. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings,
steeply pitched slate roof with bands of green fishscale slates. Nave with
one aisle, transepts, chancel, south-east tower with a spire; in free early
Gothic style. Entrance at south end, by double doors, tympanum with carved
emblem of the Evangelist under banded 2-centred arch; paired lancets each
side; above, a large plate traceried 3-light window flanked by single-light
windows. Five-bay nave with gabled porch on west side and 3 cross gables
to aisle on east side; trefoils in these gables, otherwise most windows of
2 cusped lancets. Unusual 3-stage tower with free-standing pinnacles on
colonnettes beside the octagonal spire. Interior: 3-bay aisle arcade on
columns with crocketed capitals; chancel arch with corbelled shafts;
gallery at south end. Wagon roofs, polygonal to chancel.

Listing NGR: SD7631729092

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26328635

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)