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Title: Church of St John, Church Bank Lane, Cragg Vale - CBC00591
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Title
Church of St John, Church Bank Lane, Cragg Vale - CBC00591
Description
Full name - St John the Baptist in the Wilderness
Grade II
Church, 1839 rebuilding of earlier church of which there is no evidence (date plaque inside). Dressed stone, slate roof. West tower, nave and shallow chancel. Lancet style. 3-stage embattled tower has angle buttresses which rise to form pinnacles. All windows are tall lancets with deeply double chamfered surrounds and pointed arches. Windows to each stage of tower in west face only. Doorway set in north face, 2nd stage has clock to north and south faces; 3rd stage is belfry. Aisless nave of 4 bays, each with tall windows articulated by shallow buttresses. Corbel table. Angle buttresses with pinnacles to corners. Shallow single-bay chancel has tall east window with panelled tracery, and angle buttresses with outshuts to either side with lean-to roofs and pointed arched doorways. Interior: single vessel with shallow chancel set within pointed arch. Gallery to west end carried on clustered iron colonnettes; brattished rail with panelled front with arched heads. Flat roof with moulded ribs. Memorial to Rev. Thomas Crowther the original minister "38 years in this Parish" dated 1859.
NGR SE 00048 23208
Historic England List Entry Number 1229194
CMBC Ref HR 4/85
Grade II
Church, 1839 rebuilding of earlier church of which there is no evidence (date plaque inside). Dressed stone, slate roof. West tower, nave and shallow chancel. Lancet style. 3-stage embattled tower has angle buttresses which rise to form pinnacles. All windows are tall lancets with deeply double chamfered surrounds and pointed arches. Windows to each stage of tower in west face only. Doorway set in north face, 2nd stage has clock to north and south faces; 3rd stage is belfry. Aisless nave of 4 bays, each with tall windows articulated by shallow buttresses. Corbel table. Angle buttresses with pinnacles to corners. Shallow single-bay chancel has tall east window with panelled tracery, and angle buttresses with outshuts to either side with lean-to roofs and pointed arched doorways. Interior: single vessel with shallow chancel set within pointed arch. Gallery to west end carried on clustered iron colonnettes; brattished rail with panelled front with arched heads. Flat roof with moulded ribs. Memorial to Rev. Thomas Crowther the original minister "38 years in this Parish" dated 1859.
NGR SE 00048 23208
Historic England List Entry Number 1229194
CMBC Ref HR 4/85
Date
1980s
Rights
PHDA - Calderdale MBC
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CBC00591.jpg
Collection
Citation
“Church of St John, Church Bank Lane, Cragg Vale - CBC00591,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/35901.
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