St John's Church, Threapwood

St John's Church, Threapwood
St John's Church, Threapwood, from the south
St John's Church, Threapwood Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°00′09″N 2°50′09″W / 53.0024°N 2.8359°W / 53.0024; -2.8359
OS grid reference	SJ 439 456
Location	Threapwood, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St John, Threapwood
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	1 March 1967
Architectural type	Church
Style	Georgian
Completed	1815
Specifications
Materials	Brick with slate roof
Administration
Parish	St Oswald, Malpas, and St John, Threapwood
Deanery	Malpas
Archdeaconry	Chester
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	Revd Canon Ian Arthan Davenport

West facade

St John's Church, Threapwood, is in the village of Threapwood, Cheshire, England. The authors of the Buildings of England series state that it is entirely Georgian in style.^[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Malpas. Its benefice is combined with that of St Oswald, Malpas.^[2] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.^[3]

History

The church was built in 1815 as an extra-parochial chapel.^[3] The parish of St John's was established in 1817.^[4]

Architecture

St John's is built in brick with a slate roof. It is a rectangular, intact Georgian church. At the west end is an open octagonal cupola.^[3] Pedimented doorways are at the west end and in the middle of the south side.^[1]

Inside the church are galleries on three sides with the north and south galleries curving round to the west gallery. They are on iron columns with an iron parapet. The two chandeliers are in brass and are dated 1817.^[1] The altar rails are iron and are on three sides of the altar.^[5] At two sides of the altar are box pews with brass name plates for the patrons, the Broughton and Kenyon families. The panelled timber reredos is in three parts, bearing the Lord's Prayer and the creed to the left and the right and an extract from Exodus in a divided central panel.^[3]

External features

The gatepiers, gates, wall, piers and railings to the church are listed Grade II.^[6]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 637, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 
2. ^ Threapwood, St John, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/threapwood-st-john/, retrieved 15 October 2009 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} "Church of St John, Threapwood", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1129936, retrieved 2 May 2011 
4. ^ Threapwood, Genuki, http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/FLN/Threapwood/, retrieved 27 January 2008 
5. ^ Morant, Roland W. (1989), Cheshire Churches, Birkenhead: Countyvise, p. 182, ISBN 0-907768-18-0 
6. ^ "Gatepiers, gates, wall, piers and railings to Church of St John, Threapwood", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1325954, retrieved 2 May 2011