Description

SD 57 SW YEALAND CONYERS CHURCH LANE

4/286 Church of St. John
2. 5. 1968
II

Church, 1838, 1861 and 1882. Limestone rubble with limestone dressings to
the earlier part, sandstone dressings to the later chancel, a pebbledashed
tower and slate roof. Church comprises a nave, a chancel with a roof of
steeper pitch, and a north aisle with pitched roof. A tower rises above
the west wall with a projecting battlemented parapet. The doorway is in
the west wall, flanked by buttresses and with a pointed head and hood mould
of square section. Beyond on each side is a lancet window with hood mould,
with buttresses at the corners of the wall. Above the doorway is a string
course, with a 1st floor window with pointed head, drip mould and wooden
Y-tracery. The south nave wall is of 5 bays separated by buttresses, with
lancet windows and with a continuous drip course of square section. The
east bay is reconstructed, with sandstone dressings. The chancel has 2
paired cusped lights in the south wall. The east wall has 3 large
buttresses with a 3-light window of intersecting tracery with trefoils.
The east wall of the north aisle has windows with 2 cusped lights and a
trefoil, with a similar window in its west wall. The north wall has 4
sandstone lancets with hood moulds.

Listing NGR: SD5070674828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St John the Evangelist's Church, Yealand Conyers at Wikipedia
• St John the Evangelist's Church, Yealand Conyers official website
• Wikidata Q20710649

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback