Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE MANSFIELD ROAD
646-1/4/390 (North West side)
Church of St John the Evangelist

GV II

Parish church. 1843. By William Surplice. Chancel 1866-77 by
Jackson & Heazell. North aisle 1922, by AE Heazell & Son. All
Nottingham architects. Ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate
roofs. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: chancel, vestry, nave, south porch, north aisle, lady
chapel and porch.
EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses, coped parapets and gables.
Pointed arched windows with hood moulds. Chancel, Decorated
style, 2 bays, has corbel table. East end has angle buttresses
with crocketed pinnacles, and a resited window, 1843,
5-lights. South side has 2 windows, 2-lights, divided by a
buttress and pinnacle.
Vestry, to north, flat roofed, has a 3-light flat-headed
window to east, and a similar window and door to north.
Nave, 5 bays, has buttresses with pinnacles removed, and at
the west end, a cross-gabled wooden bell turret. South side
has 4 graduated triple lancet windows, and to west a gabled
porch with pointed arched door and hood mould. West end has
two flat-headed windows, 2-lights, and to left, a pointed
arched door.
Lady chapel, Perpendicular style, has to east a 3-light
window, and to north a 2-light window, untraceried. North
aisle, 5 bays, has 4 similar windows, 2-lights, and a gabled
porch with chamfered doorway. West end had a graduated window,
3-lights.
INTERIOR: rendered, has a roll moulded chancel arch with
shafts, and a small pointed arched opening to left. Chancel
has a principal rafter roof with large wooden angel corbels.
East end has a stained glass window, 1948, by Pope & Parr of
Nottingham to Ichabod Wright, died 1871.
South side has 2 stained glass windows, late C19. North side
has organ arch and blank recess.
Nave, 5 bays, has a thin hammer beam roof with arch braces.
North arcade has smaller end bays, octagonal piers and double
chamfered arches. Stained glass window to south east, 1862, to
Ichabod Wright. West end has 2 small windows.
North aisle and lady chapel have a wooden barrel vault. Lady
chapel has a segmental pointed arch, and stained glass east
window c1944. North side has a stained glass window, 1922, and
a piscina. South side has organ arch. North aisle has to north
a mid C19 stained glass window, and at the west end, mid and
late C19 memorial windows to the Wright family.
Fittings include octagonal font with arcaded base, 1846, C19
chairs, and remaining fittings C20. Memorials include a few
mid C19 tablets.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 263).

Listing NGR: SK5713342363

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St. John the Evangelist, Carrington at Wikipedia
• Church of St. John the Evangelist, Carrington official website
• Wikidata Q5117253

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