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Parish Church of St. John the Elder , Goldenhill


Area
Goldenhill
Street
High Street
Heritage No.
43a
Grade
II
Date Listed
15 March 1993
Building: St. John the Evangelist
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ8553
Description:  CHURCH, 1840-1, BRICK WITH SLATE ROOF, BYZANTINE, ROMANESQUE


St. John the Evangelist, Goldenhill
St. John the Evangelist, Goldenhill


Parish Church. 1840-1841 by a local architect, Stanley of Shelton.

Brick with slate roofs. Byzantine Romanesque style, with west tower and spire, nave and chancel. West tower ornamented with brick laid in a herringbone pattern, and with stone broach spire. Round-arched west doorway with thick stone shafts carrying moulded brick archway. Paired windows over.

Nave divided into 5 bays by buttresses, with porch to NW, with round-arched stepped brick moulding to archway with chevron decoration, carried on cushion capitals over thick stone shafts.

Brick chevron decoration to eaves band continues round eastern shafts in brick interlaced arcade. Interior a single span with simple unmoulded chancel arch. and western gallery carried on cast iron columns.

Stained glass windows form a series of 3 between 1896 and 1917, apparently by the same artist.

 (The Victorian History of the Counties of England: RB Pugh: Staffordshire: Oxford, 1963-).


 

Byzantine Romanesque style, with west tower and spire
Byzantine Romanesque style, with west tower and spire

 

porch with round-arched stepped brick moulding to archway with chevron decoration
porch with round-arched stepped brick moulding to
archway with chevron decoration

 

Second World War Memorial
Second World War Memorial

 

photos: Steve Birks - June 2008

 


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