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Latitude: 54.5235 / 54°31'24"N
Longitude: -3.5237 / 3°31'25"W
OS Eastings: 301479
OS Northings: 515311
OS Grid: NY014153
Mapcode National: GBR 3JT4.X7
Mapcode Global: WH5Z8.VK7L
Plus Code: 9C6RGFFG+9G
Entry Name: Church of St John Evangelist
Listing Date: 9 August 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1336035
English Heritage Legacy ID: 76108
ID on this website: 101336035
Location: St John's Church, Cleator Moor, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA25
County: Cumbria
District: Copeland
Civil Parish: Cleator Moor
Built-Up Area: Cleator Moor
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Cleator Moor St John
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Church building
NY 01 NW CLEATOR MOOR LECONFIELD STREET
(South side)
Cleator Moor
5/13 Church of St John
Evangelist
II
Parish Church. 1872 by Cory and Ferguson (Carlisle); restored 1900. Snecked
sandstone blocks with quoins and buttresses; chamfered plinth to chancel.
Graduated slate roofs with chapel outshut to either side of chancel; stone
copings and kneelers. Romanesque style; west tower, nave with aisles, chancel.
3-stage tower has paired belfry opening under containing arch with trellis
decoration to spandrel; blind recess on either side similarly decorated. Tower
stair turret projects on south side at junction with nave; external door. Main
door on north side of nave has 4 semicircular orders; 3 outer are decoratively
carved, carried between waterleaf capitals on en-delit shafts. Single aisle and
clerestory window to each bay of nave; chancel has 3 stepped windows to east
end. All windows round-headed under hoodmoulds. Whitewashed brick interior.
4-bay nave arcade of semicircular arches carried between waterleaf capitals on
quatrefoil piers. Quadrant vaults to aisles and pointed barrel vault to main
vessel, both with transverse arches. Intersecting rib vault to chancel.
Polygonal carved wood pulpit to left of chancel arch in nave, matching vicar's
stall to right. Carved stone font, on 5 marble shafts, in baptistry to ground
floor of tower.
Listing NGR: NY0147915311
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