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Church of St John

A Grade II Listed Building in Crosby, Sefton

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Latitude: 53.4766 / 53°28'35"N

Longitude: -3.0298 / 3°1'47"W

OS Eastings: 331750

OS Northings: 398260

OS Grid: SJ317982

Mapcode National: GBR 7X87.VG

Mapcode Global: WH86T.FWG3

Plus Code: 9C5RFXGC+M3

Entry Name: Church of St John

Listing Date: 20 December 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1257359

English Heritage Legacy ID: 463978

ID on this website: 101257359

Location: St John's Church, Waterloo, Sefton, Merseyside, L22

County: Sefton

Electoral Ward/Division: Church

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Crosby

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside

Church of England Parish: Waterloo St John

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

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Description



CROSBY

SJ3198SE ST JOHN'S ROAD
778-1/7/119 (South side)
Church of St John

II

Church. 1864-5, by Culshaw [Pevsner]; slightly altered.
Coursed sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings, fishscale
slate roof with bands of purple slate.
STYLE: Early English, with lancet windows throughout.
PLAN: nave with south porch and north baptistery to the west
end, large transepts to the east end, chancel with side
offices.
EXTERIOR: the west gable of the nave, with angle-buttresses
and bellcote, has 3 tall stepped lancets with hoodmoulds, a
sillband stepped up and run out and beneath this 3 small oval
lancets. The side walls, with buttresses and corbel-tables,
have tall lancets, except the 1st bay on the south side which
has a gabled porch with moulded 2-centred arched doorway and a
small 3-sided apse on its west side, and the 1st bay on the
north side which has a gabled baptistery in similar style. The
roof has 2 early C20 inserted flat-roofed 5-light dormers in
each side, and 2 square lead-clad pedestals (or ventilators?)
on the ridge. The 2-bay transepts and 2-bay chancel are in
matching style, with stepped lancets in the gables, the south
transept has a shallow gabled porch beneath the windows, with
a moulded 2-centred arched doorway, and the chancel roof has a
dormer in each side like those of the nave.
INTERIOR: large unaisled nave with transepts; good stained
glass windows by various artists, including one at west end of
north side by Kempe; pitch-pine pews with side aisles.


Listing NGR: SJ3175098260

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