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Church of St John Evangelist

A Grade II Listed Building in Cleator Moor, Cumbria

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.5235 / 54°31'24"N

Longitude: -3.5237 / 3°31'25"W

OS Eastings: 301479

OS Northings: 515311

OS Grid: NY014153

Mapcode National: GBR 3JT4.X7

Mapcode Global: WH5Z8.VK7L

Plus Code: 9C6RGFFG+9G

Entry Name: Church of St John Evangelist

Listing Date: 9 August 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1336035

English Heritage Legacy ID: 76108

ID on this website: 101336035

Location: St John's Church, Cleator Moor, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA25

County: Cumbria

District: Copeland

Civil Parish: Cleator Moor

Built-Up Area: Cleator Moor

Traditional County: Cumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Cleator Moor St John

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

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Description


NY 01 NW CLEATOR MOOR LECONFIELD STREET
(South side)
Cleator Moor

5/13 Church of St John
Evangelist

II


Parish Church. 1872 by Cory and Ferguson (Carlisle); restored 1900. Snecked
sandstone blocks with quoins and buttresses; chamfered plinth to chancel.
Graduated slate roofs with chapel outshut to either side of chancel; stone
copings and kneelers. Romanesque style; west tower, nave with aisles, chancel.
3-stage tower has paired belfry opening under containing arch with trellis
decoration to spandrel; blind recess on either side similarly decorated. Tower
stair turret projects on south side at junction with nave; external door. Main
door on north side of nave has 4 semicircular orders; 3 outer are decoratively
carved, carried between waterleaf capitals on en-delit shafts. Single aisle and
clerestory window to each bay of nave; chancel has 3 stepped windows to east
end. All windows round-headed under hoodmoulds. Whitewashed brick interior.
4-bay nave arcade of semicircular arches carried between waterleaf capitals on
quatrefoil piers. Quadrant vaults to aisles and pointed barrel vault to main
vessel, both with transverse arches. Intersecting rib vault to chancel.
Polygonal carved wood pulpit to left of chancel arch in nave, matching vicar's
stall to right. Carved stone font, on 5 marble shafts, in baptistry to ground
floor of tower.


Listing NGR: NY0147915311

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