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St John the Evangelist's Church, Warrington St John the Evangelist's Church, Warrington
St John the Evangelist's Church, Warrington
Location in Cheshire
Coordinates : 53°21′45″N 2°36′18″W / 53.3626°N 2.6049°W / 53.3626; -2.6049 OS grid reference SJ 598,853 Location Walton , Warrington , CheshireCountry England Denomination Anglican Website https://www.stjohnschurchwalton.org.uk Status Parish church Dedication John the Evangelist Consecrated 1885 Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 23 December 1983 Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1885 Construction cost £17,500 Spire height 130 feet (40 m) Materials Red sandstone withWestmorland green slate roofs Parish St John the Evangelist, Walton Deanery Great Budworth Archdeaconry Chester Diocese Chester Province York Priest(s) Revd Anita Raggett Reader(s) Ian Jerrard-Dinn Churchwarden(s) Tony Robins, Nina Chadwick
St John the Evangelist's Church is in Walton , Warrington , Cheshire , England. It was built as a private estate church towards the end of the 19th century but is now an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester , the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building .[2]
History [ ]
The church was built in 1882–83 for the brewer Sir Gilbert Greenall of Walton Hall . It was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin , the cost of its construction being £17,500
(equivalent to £1,800,000 in 2020).[3] [4]
Architecture [ ]
Exterior [ ]
The church is built in red snecked sandstone with Westmorland green slate roofs. Its plan is cruciform with a three-bay nave , north and south transepts , a two-bay chancel , a south vestry , and a south porch. The tower is in four stages with chequerwork in its third stage, a recessed octagonal spire and an octagonal north west stair turret . The porch consists of an oak frame on a 6 feet (2 m) sandstone plinth . The church is in Decorated style.[2]
Interior [ ]
The nave and chancels have barrel roofs . On the south side of the chancel is sedilia . The reredos contains a carving of the Crucifixion . The font is marble , and the pulpit is built of oak on a stone base. The floors are tiled.[2] The stained glass includes a window in the south transept dated 1929 by Morris and Co. and elsewhere by E. H. Jewitt of Shrigley and Hunt .[5] [6]
Appraisal [ ]
The church was listed at Grade II* on 23 December 1983. Grade II* is the middle of the three gradings designated by English Heritage, and is given to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest".[7] The authors of the Buildings of England series describe it as a "glorious estate church, exquisitely detailed and composed", and consider that the tower is one of Austin's best.[6]
External features [ ]
The lych gate dating from around 1885 is built in red sandstone with a Westmorland green slate roof and half-timbered gables on brackets. It was built at the expense of Sir Gilbert Greenall and was designed by Paley and Austin. It is listed at Grade II.[6] [8]
See also [ ]
Cheshire portal
References [ ]
^ St John the Evangelist, Walton , Church of England , retrieved 11 February 2011
^ a b c Historic England , "Church of St John the Evangelist, Walton (1139352)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 9 July 2012
^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" , MeasuringWorth , retrieved 2 December 2021
^ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin , Swindon: English Heritage , pp. 101–102, 233, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
^ Waters, William (2003). Stained Glass from Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster and London . Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster. p. 78. ISBN 1862201404 . Retrieved 18 July 2020 .
^ a b c Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , p. 629, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
^ Listed Buildings , Historic England, retrieved 7 April 2015
^ Historic England, "Lychgate to Church of St John the Evangelist, Walton (1136037)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 9 July 2012
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