Description

BARNACRE-WITH-BONDS CALDER VALE SD 54 NW 5/14 Church of St. John Evangelist - - II

Church, 1863, by Corrie. Sandstone rubble with slate roofs. Comprises a west tower, nave with north aisle and south porch, and lower chancel. Tower has diagonal buttresses and a pyramid roof behind an embattled parapet. The bell openings are of 2 cusped lights under a pointed head. The west window is of 3 cusped lights with Perpendicular tracery. The nave has one window to the west and 2 to the east of the porch. They are of 2 cusped lights with depressed pointed arches and Perpendicular tracery. The porch has diagonal buttresses and outer and inner doorways with pointed heads. The north aisle has 3 2-light windows with flat heads and cusped ogee lights. The south wall of the chancel has a window of 2 cusped lights with flat head and Perpendicular tracery. To its left is a priest's door, with a smaller window further left. The east window is of 4 lights with Perpendicular tracery and pointed head. The interior is of brick with sandstone dressings. The 4-bay arcade has pointed arches chamfered in 2 orders on columns of 4 clustered shafts. The tower arch is of 2 chamfered orders dying into the responds. The chancel arch is similar, but with attached shafts as responds. The nave roof trusses have arch-braced collars, alternate trusses having the braces rising from hammer-beams. Under both the tower and chancel arches are timber screens with tracery decoration. The chancel has a boarded waggon roof and carved choir stalls and communion rails. Both the pulpit and the font are of stone with decoration in relief. The piscina has a traceried head; the twin sedilia are of timber. Three of the C20 windows are said to be by Morris & Co.

Listing NGR: SD5376246352

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)