- St John the Evangelist's Church, Crawshawbooth
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St John the Evangelist's Church, Crawshawbooth 
St John the Evangelist's Church, Crawshawbooth,
from the southwestLocation in Lancashire
St John the Evangelist's Church, CrawshawboothCoordinates: 53°43′21″N 2°17′21″W / 53.7226°N 2.2892°W OS grid reference SD 810 252 Location Crawshawbooth, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St John, Crawshawbooth History Dedication Saint John the Evangelist Significant associated people Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 7 June 1971 Architect(s) Paley, Austin and Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1890 Completed 1892 Administration Parish St John Crawshawbooth Deanery Rossendale Archdeaconry Bolton Diocese Manchester Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Dr J. S. Montgomery St John the Evangelist's Church, Crawshawbooth, is located in the village of Crawshawbooth, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester. Its benefice has been united with that of St Mary and All Saints, Goodshaw.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[2]
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History
St John's was built between 1890 and 1892 to a design by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley.[3] Financial donations towards the site and structure of the church were made by Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw of Crawshaw Hall.[2][4]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is constructed in sandstone with Yorkshire stone dressings and is roofed in green Cumberland slate. Its architectural style is Perpendicular.[2] The plan consists of a nave and chancel in one range, north and south aisles, a south transept, and a north transept above which rises a tower. A clerestory rises above the aisles along the length of the nave, to the south of the chancel is a chapel, and to its north is a vestry. There is a porch in the westernmost bay of the south aisle, and another porch in the angle of the south transept.[2][4] On each side of the clerestory are ten square-headed two-light windows. The west window has five lights and contains intersecting tracery. Along the aisles are buttresses and two-light windows. The south transept also has buttresses, and a large five-light window containing Perpendicular and curvilinear tracery. The chancel has a large east window with six lights containing Perpendicular tracery. The tower has diagonal corner buttresses that rise to octagonal turrets surmounted by crocketed pinnacles. The summit of the tower has an embattled parapet.[2]
Interior
The interior of the church is lined with red Rainhill sandstone.[4] The five-bay arcades are carried alternately on round and octagonal columns. The chancel arch is high, and has two orders of moulding. There are carved wooden screens between the nave and the chancel, and between the chancel and the north transept. Some of the choir stalls have elaborately carved crocketed canopies containing statues.[2] The reredos dates from the 20th century, and contains statues of the Four Evangelists. The font is hexagonal. In the church are memorials to members of the Brooks family.[4]
See also
- List of works by Paley, Austin and Paley
References
- ^ St John, Crawshawbooth, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/crawshawbooth-st-john/, retrieved 19 October 2011
- ^ a b c d e f Church of St John the Evangelist, Crawshawbooth (1163934). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 90, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ a b c d Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 562–563, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Anglican Diocese of Manchester
- Grade II* listed buildings in Lancashire
- Grade II* listed churches
- Gothic Revival architecture in Lancashire
- Paley, Austin and Paley buildings
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