St John the Evangelist's Church, Byley

St John the Evangelist's Church, Byley
St John the Evangelist's Church, Byley
St John the Evangelist's Church, Byley Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°13′12″N 2°25′02″W / 53.2200°N 2.4172°W / 53.2200; -2.4172
OS grid reference	SJ 722 693
Location	Byley, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St John, Byley
History
Dedication	John the Evangelist
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	2 January 1986
Architect(s)	J. Matthews
Architectural type	Church
Construction cost	£1,000 (£70,000 as of 2011)[1]
Specifications
Materials	Brick and stone Roof of tiles
Administration
Parish	Byley
Deanery	Middlewich
Archdeaconry	Chester
Diocese	Chester
Province	York

St John the Evangelist's Church, Byley, is in the small village of Byley, Cheshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.^[2] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Middlewich. Its benefice is combined with that of St Michael and All Angels, Middlewich.^[3] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner regarded it as being "really very ugly" with a "minimum of motifs, but a maximum of materials".^[4]

History

The church was built as a Commissioners' Church in 1847 to a design by J. Matthews. It cost £1,000 (£70,000 as of 2011),^[1] the Church Building Commission giving a grant of £75 towards this.^[5]

Architecture

The church is built in brick and stone with a roof of tiles. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a three-bay chancel which is narrower and less lofty than the nave, a north porch and a southeast tower. The tower has a stone parapet and a steep pyramidal roof. On the west end gable is a bellcote.^[2] The organ was built in 1860 by the Imperial Pipe Organ Company.^[6]

See also

• List of Commissioners' churches in Northeast and Northwest England

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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} "Church of St John the Evangelist, Byley", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1138459, retrieved 3 May 2011 
3. ^ St John the Evangelist, Byley-cum-Less, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/byley-cum-less-st-john-the-evangelist/, retrieved 3 November 2009 
4. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (2003) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 123, ISBN 0-300-09588-0 
5. ^ Port, M. H. (2006), 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856 (2nd ed.), Reading: Spire Books, p. 331, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4 
6. ^ Cheshire, Byley, St. John the Evangelist (D04462), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D04462, retrieved 3 December 2010