Description

SJ 78 SW HIGH LEGH C.P. THE AVENUE

4/34 Church of St John

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- II

1893. By Edmund Kirby. Ashlar, red Flemish bond brick and timber
framing with rendered infill. Tile roof. Tower, narthex, south
western porch, nave, chancel and south eastern vestry. The stone
lower walls to the whole body of the church are a retention of the
lower walls of the former church by Thomas Harrison destroyed by fire
in 1891, the small off-set buttresses being additions by Kirby.
Western narthex : timber framed walls with lean-to roof abutting main
body of nave. Central western window of 4 casement lights with
timber-framed gable above. One 2-light window to each side. Porch
adjoins to right as a continuation of narthex with 1/2-hipped roof and
one 2-light window to west and east side-walls. Tower of 2 further
stages rises from narthex. Bay window to first stage of 4 mullioned
lights to west with 2 transoms and 2 mullioned lights to sides. Coving
above with timber framed gable. Brick belfry-stage above with its
louvred openings to each face. Double-pitch roof with lead spire
above. South front: skin of close-studding, nave of 3 bays with porch
to left. Windows have flat lintels and 4 lights of Perpendicular
tracery. Vestry to right projecting to south. ½ hipped roof to south
with 6-light casement window below eaves. Chancel: brick with late
liacorated eastern window.
Interior: Western internal wall between nave and narthex timber-
framed with leaded casement windows to narthex at left and right of
large central glazed opening to towers. Other internal walls of
brick. Deeply chamfered window reveals with double 1/4 circle moulded
stone corbels supporting a continuous wooden lintel with roll moulding
and brattishing. Coving above lintel of row of cells of small
framing. South eastern most bay of nave has double wooden arched
opening to vestry. Pointed brick chancel arch with continuous
moulding to ground. Roof retiled 1982.

Listing NGR: SJ7003084119

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St John's Church, High Legh at Wikipedia
• St John's Church, High Legh official website
• Wikidata Q2323958

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