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Latitude: 53.811 / 53°48'39"N
Longitude: -1.6717 / 1°40'18"W
OS Eastings: 421713
OS Northings: 435015
OS Grid: SE217350
Mapcode National: GBR JSRC.WM
Mapcode Global: WHC9B.9G5S
Plus Code: 9C5WR86H+98
Entry Name: Church of St John the Evangelist
Listing Date: 17 June 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1214466
English Heritage Legacy ID: 341907
ID on this website: 101214466
Location: St John's Church, Farsley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS28
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Calverley and Farsley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Pudsey
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Farsley St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
LS28 NEW STREET
SE2135SE PUDSEY (south side),
Farsley
Church of St. John
5/143 the Evangelist
II
GV
Church. c1842/3 by William Wallen (Huddersfield), tower rebuilt c1895
by A. Child (Calverley), porch c1898. 4-stage west tower, south porch,
nave, chancel, north transept. Gothic Revival Early English lancet style.
Plinth, sill band. Tower: gabled porch attached to south. Angle buttresses
with gabled offsets. 2nd stage: single light flanked by smaller blind
windows. 3rd stage has 5-light window with 2 belfry lights. 4th stage:
clasping buttresses surmounted by pinnacles, clock-face to each side,
Lombard frieze and parapet. Nave: 6 bays articulated by gabled buttresses.
Corbel table. Coped gable. Lower 2-bay chancel has 3-light east window
with vesica (blind) above. Offset angle buttresses. Coped gable surmounted
by cross. North transept attached to 1st bay of chancel has twin gables.
Interior: single vessel with 6-bay queen-post roof. West gallery carried
on slender cast-iron columns. Pointed-arch to chancel rising from shafted
columns. Pews and choir stalls with Early English style tracery. Octagonal
carved oak pulpit of c1900 when linenfold panelling in Sanctuary was added
Elaborate reredos by Messrs. Healey (Bradford). More panelling added to
Chancel c1938. Unusual portable font (on modern stand) initialled and dated
1667 E. W. (Elkanah Wales, the Vicar in the C17).
The site for the church was given by Thomas Thornhill of Fixby Hall,
Huddersfield (q.v.), the Lord of the Manor of Calverley and benefactor
of the church.
Listing NGR: SE2171335015
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