Description

SOUTH BANK NORMANBY ROAD, east side
NZ 52 SW
3/105 Church of St. John the
Evangelist
- II

Church, 1893/95 by J.M. Bottomley (Middlesbrough); and Allison Brothers
(Middlesbrough), builders. Brick; red sandstone dressings to interior.
Welsh slate roofs, now covered with bitumen. Stone gable copings.
Continuous clerestoried nave and chancel with aisles, half-octagonal apse,
south organ chamber and west porch. Early English style. Gabled porch has
boarded double doors in pointed surround of 3 chamfered orders under
hoodmould; circular plate-traceried window in tympanum above. Porch flanked
by one-window lean-to wings. 3 levels of windows in west end under similar
circular window, now used as ventilator, in gable. Finial missing.
Clerestorey has 9 windows in nave and 2 in chancel. 5-bay nave with
offset buttresses between bays. 3-bay north chancel aisle. Pent organ
chamber. 5-window apse with half-pyramidal roof. All windows have
double-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds. Roofs have shaped rafter-ends.
Interior: Windows in triple-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds. 5-bay
nave arcades, under continuous hoodmould, have short round columns with
roughly-dressed capitals and moulded bases. Chancel arch has 2 plain orders
and nook shafts. Similar arcades to sanctuary and organ chamber. Embattled
wood wall plates; barrel roofs. Sanctuary has patterned polychrome
encaustic tiled floor, and wood panelling, below sills, with paintings of
saints and coats-of-arms. Large painting of Ascension behind altar. Good
panelling, with enriched mouldings and door architrave, 1936 by Thompson
(Kilburn) on north wall of chancel. Octagonal pulpit c.1916, has carved
panelling and applied Ionic Order with inscribed frieze, and short stair
with turned balusters and panelled newel. Matching low chancel screen.
Organ, 1904 by Abbot and Smith (Leeds), recently rebuilt, has good
pine-panelled case with cusped panels. Carved wood rood c.1920, suspended
from chancel arch. Mid C20 church hall adjoining east end is not of special
interest.

Listing NGR: NZ5353920722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614897

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version