Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Parish
Church of St. John the Elder , Goldenhill
Area
Goldenhill |
Street
High Street |
Heritage No.
43a |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
15 March 1993 |
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Building:
St. John the Evangelist |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT
SJ8553 |
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Description:
CHURCH, 1840-1, BRICK WITH SLATE ROOF,
BYZANTINE, ROMANESQUE |
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
porch with round-arched stepped
brick moulding to
archway with chevron decoration
Second World
War Memorial
photos: Steve Birks - June 2008
  
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