Description

ST TEATH HIGH STREET, Delabole
SX 08 SE
4/163 Church of St John
- II

Church. Circa 1880. By Hine and Odgers. Snecked stone rubble with brick and
granite dressings. Steeply pitched slate roofs with bands of decorative fish scale
slates. Chancel roof lower than nave roof with lean-to roof to south aisle.
Plan: nave, chancel, 3 bay south aisle and vestry on north side of chancel. Entrance
in tower which is situated at the west end of the south aisle.
Exterior : Triple lancet windows to nave, chancel and south aisle. Gabled porch with
2-centred arch at west end of nave. Entrance in south side of tower at south west
corner of church ; tower of 2 stages with set back angle buttresses and pyramid roof.
2 centred arched openings and triple lancet belfry lights with slate louvres.
Interior: Rendered walls, painted in chancel. Scissor braced roof to nave and
chancel. 3-bay arcade to south aisle with squat piers and moulded capitals. Carved
octagonal font. C19 timber pulpit painted by Jack Bucknall, socialist vicar of
Delabole in the 1920s. C20 Delabole-slate altar and candlesticks.

Listing NGR: SX0695984110

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26436401

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)