Building record 15025/1 - Church of St. John, Kingsley

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 436680 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Church, 1849, by George Gilbert Scott. Red squared snecked sandstone rubble; grey slate roofs. Recessed west tower and spire; nave with south porch and short north aisle; chancel; north sacristan. Tower of one stage above nave roof: square west buttresses; triangular belfry window with tracery of three circles; corbel table; splay-footed stone spire with lucarnes on cardinal faces and clock dials on three of oblique faces. Gabled porch; lean-to north aisle; cross-gabled sacristy. Late thirteenth century detailing with lancet and Geometrical windows. Oak doors on ornate wrought iron hinges; shaped chimney to sacristy. Interior. West baptistry with arches to vestries north and south; tower arch with lower arch to each side to nave; red softwood north aisle arcade of three bays; arch-braced principal rafters, scissor-trussed common rafters;. corbelled chancel arch on semi-octagon responds. Wrought iron screen by Scott. Octagonal font. Early and mid twentieth glass in chancel and easternmost window of north aisle. Stone reredos with polished granite columns.

<2> Port, M. H, 2006, Six Hundred New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856, p.331 (Book). SCH8788.

A grant of £150 was provided towards the construction of this church from the Church Building Commission.

<3> Pevsner N & Hubbard E, 1971, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, p.419 (Book). SCH3078.

1849-50 by George Gilbert Scott in the style of the late thirteenth century gothic. The east window dates from 1880 and is by Clayton and Bell. There is a wrought iron screen dated 1913.

<4> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol.II p.100-101 (Book). SCH1389.

'…In 1849 the first stone was laid of a very pretty church, which was completed, by subscription, in 1850. The style is early English, slightly decorated, after designs by Sir Gilbert Scott, and is built of the porous new red sandstone of the district, but lined with brick. It consists of nave, north aisle, chancel, and a small chapel, with a small tower and spire. The late J. H. Smith-Barry, esq. the principal lord of the manor, gave a two-acre field as a site for the church, and parsonage, the latter of which is a very neat building…'