Description

MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM

SD46SW DRAYCOMBE DRIVE, Morecambe
939-1/1/35 Church of St John the Divine

II

Church. 1899-1901 by Austin and Paley.
Snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Roofs of
sandstone slated with pyramidal aluminium roof to crossing
tower and aluminium porch roof.
Comprises a nave with clerestorey, north and south aisles,
south porch, north doorway, crossing tower, south transept,
north vestry, and chancel. Windows have Perpendicular tracery.
The west window is flanked by buttresses with offsets and is
of 4 lights.
The clerestoreys are of 5 bays with 4-light windows under
segmental heads. The aisle windows are of 2 and 3 lights under
flat heads. The south porch has a carved niche above a moulded
pointed doorway, and a gable parapet with cross finial. The
crossing tower was intended to be higher and the stair
projection is now capped with a bellcote. The south window of
the transept is of 2 lights with blind tracery panels above
and below. To the left is a doorway against a buttress. The
south chancel windows are both of 2 lights with circles of
flowing tracery below flat heads.
The interior is of exposed sandstone. The nave arcades are of
5 bays plus a narrow western bay, with pointed arches which
have 2 chamfered orders, octagonal piers without caps, and
corbelled shafts supporting the outer arch orders. The open
timber nave roof has queen-post trusses alternating with
arch-braced collar trusses and has cusped wind braces. The
crossing arches are pointed and chamfered in 2 orders, the
inner orders carried on corbelled shafts. The crossing is
divided from the nave by a low wall of brown-veined alabaster
which incorporates a carved pulpit at its southern end. Above
the chancel is a boarded barrel roof. A king-post truss has
gilded angel corbels. To the east of the truss the panels are
painted with monograms within circles. The communion rails
have turned balusters and are carved with tracery and vine
scroll decoration. The choir stalls also have carved tracery
decoration.
(Pevsner N).

Listing NGR: SD4200462810

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St John the Divine's Church, Morecambe at Wikipedia
• St John the Divine's Church, Morecambe official website
• Wikidata Q7593760

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