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Latitude: 53.5306 / 53°31'50"N
Longitude: -2.4011 / 2°24'3"W
OS Eastings: 373509
OS Northings: 403842
OS Grid: SD735038
Mapcode National: GBR CWNM.Z3
Mapcode Global: WH982.2JW7
Plus Code: 9C5VGHJX+6H
Entry Name: Church of St John the Baptist
Listing Date: 2 September 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1162779
English Heritage Legacy ID: 211978
ID on this website: 101162779
Location: St John the Baptist's Church, Hill Top, Salford, Greater Manchester, M28
County: Salford
Electoral Ward/Division: Walkden North
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bolton
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Little Hulton St John Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Church building
WORSLEY ALGERNON ROAD
SD 70 SW
(south side)
1/21 Church of
St. John the
- Baptist
- II
Church. 1876. By J.M. and H. Taylor. Snecked stone with
slate roof. Nave and polygonal chancel with north side
chapel, transeptal vestry and organ chamber and crossing
tower. Gothic Revival. 5-bay nave (no aisles) with 2 lancet
windows in each bay and buttresses to south only. Baptistry
under outshut roof adjacent to gabled porch. 2-bay chapel
with cusp-headed lights. Gabled transept with tall 2-light
Geometrical tracery windows. Cusped lancet to each side of
polygonal chancel. Two 2-light west windows. The octagonal
tower rises from a square via broaches; it has cusped belfry
openings, a broach spire with lucarnes and a square stair
turret in the angle between chancel and organ chamber.
Interior: impressive scissor-braced rafter roof with
wrought-iron ties. Double-chamfered chancel arch on corbels
with foliated capitals. Unusual open pulpit adjacent to 2-
bay side chapel arcade which has a plaster spandrel with
figures and a text in relief. Bowl font on colonnettes.
Stained glass. In planning, detailing and construction the
church has all the quality and individuality which one
expects from the Taylors.
Listing NGR: SD7350903842
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