St John the Evangelist's Church, Warrington

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, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St John the Evangelist, Walton
History
Dedication	John the Evangelist
Consecrated	1885
Architecture
Status	Parish church
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 (£1.4 million as of 2011).[1]
Specifications
Spire height	130 feet (40 m)
Materials	Red sandstone with Westmorland green slate roofs
Administration
Parish	St John the Evangelist, Walton
Deanery	Great Budworth
Archdeaconry	Chester
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Rev Dr John E Harries
Laity
Churchwarden(s)	Mrs Heather Chatten

St John the Evangelist's Church, Warrington is in Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.^[2] 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 Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.^[3]

History

The church was built in 1885 to serve the Walton Hall estate of the Greenall family, brewers and distillers. It was built at the expense of Sir Gilbert Greenall and designed by Paley and Austin.^[2]

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 Shrigley and Hunt.^[4]

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 probably designed by Paley and Austin. It is listed Grade II.^[5]

See also

• List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin

References

1. ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} "Church of St John the Evangelist, Walton", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1139352, retrieved 3 May 2011 
3. ^ St John the Evangelist, Walton, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/walton-st-john-the-evangelist/, retrieved 11 February 2011 
4. ^ 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 
5. ^ "Lychgate to Church of St John the Evangelist, Walton", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1136037, retrieved 3 May 2011