St John's Church, Rawtenstall

St John's Church, Rawtenstall
St John's Church, Rawtenstall
Location in Lancashire
OS grid reference SD 820 227
Location Newchurch Road, Cloughfold, Rawtenstall, Lancashire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Architecture
Functional status Redundant
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 30 November 1984
Architect(s) Paley, Austin and Paley
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Completed 1890
Specifications
Materials Sandstone, slate roof

St John's Church, Rawtenstall, is a redundant Anglican church located in Newchurch Road, Cloughfold, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[1]

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History

The church was built in 1890 to a design by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley.[2] It was declared redundant on 1 May 1976,[3] and has since been used as a warehouse.[1][4] Its rood screen was removed to St Nicholas' Church, Newchurch.[1]

Architecture

St John's is constructed in sandstone with a slate roof. Its architectural style is Arts and Crafts Perpendicular. The church stands on a north-south axis, and its plan consists of a nave with low aisles, a chancel, a porch, and double transepts. At the southwest is the base of an intended tower. The tower contains diagonal buttresses, a doorway above which is blind arcading, and a pyramidal roof.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Former Church of St John, Rawtenstall (1163867). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  2. ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 90, ISBN 1-86220-054-8 
  3. ^ (PDF) Diocese of Manchester: All Schemes, Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2010, p. 4, http://www.churchofengland.org/media/810742/manchester%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf, retrieved 18 October 2011 
  4. ^ Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 554, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9