Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3720SW RUFFORD ROAD, Crossens
664-1/13/299 (East side)
Church of St John

GV II

Church. 1883-5, by JW Connon of Leeds. Rock-faced yellow
sandstone with red sandstone dressings, slate roofs with red
ridge tiles.
STYLE: Gothic.
PLAN: nave with north-west tower, south-west porch, coupled
north and south transepts, polygonal apse.
EXTERIOR: tower of narrow proportions, with angle buttresses,
polygonal vice to half height, slightly set-back belfry stage
with coupled 2-light windows which have bar tracery and stone
louvres, corbel table and embattled parapet.
West gable of nave has coupled 2-centred arched windows with
Geometric tracery.
2-storey gabled porch has 2-centred arched doorway chamfered
in 2 orders, and a 2-light mullioned window above.
North and south walls of nave have windows of 3 trefoil
lights; coupled gables of transepts have tall plate-traceried
3-light windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3748420076

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659991

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)