- St John the Evangelist's Church, Osmotherley
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St John the Evangelist's Church, Osmotherley 
West end of St John the Evangelist's Church, OsmotherleyLocation in Cumbria
St John the Evangelist's Church, OsmotherleyCoordinates: 54°13′48″N 3°06′28″W / 54.2300°N 3.1077°W OS grid reference SD 279 821 Location Osmotherley, Cumbria Country England Denomination Anglican Website St John the Evangelist, Osmotherley History Dedication Saint John the Evangelist Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 5 March 1990 Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1873 Completed 1874 Specifications Materials Slate with sandstone dressings Administration Parish St Mary with Holy Trinity, Ulverston Deanery Furness Archdeaconry Westmoreland and Furness Diocese Carlisle Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Canon Alan C. Bing St John the Evangelist's Church, Osmotherley, is in the village of Osmotherley, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmoreland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of St Mary with Holy Trinity, Ulverston, and St Jude, South Ulverston.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
The church was built in 1873–74 to a design by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin.[3]
Architecture
St John's is constructed in coursed slate rubble with sandstone dressings. The roofs are slated, with tiles on the crest. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave and a chancel in one range, a north porch, and a south vestry. The chancel has an apsidal east end. At the west end of the church is a bellcote with a spirelet. All the windows are lancets, other than two square-headed windows in the vestry, and a rose window above two lancets at the west end. The porch consists of a wooden frame on stone bases, and it is gabled. The bellcote is wooden and hung with slates. Its spirelet is broached at the base, and contains small lucarnes.[2][3]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ St John, Osmotherley, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/osmotherley-st-john/, retrieved 11 June 2011
- ^ a b "St John the Evangelist, Osmotherley", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1086796, retrieved 11 June 2011
- ^ a b Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 562, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1874
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Church of England churches in Cumbria
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Cumbria
- Diocese of Carlisle
- Paley and Austin buildings
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