St John's Church, Lytham

Coordinates: 53°44′13″N 2°57′18″W / 53.7369°N 2.9549°W / 53.7369; -2.9549
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St John's Church
Style
Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking1848
Completed1857
Specifications
MaterialsSandstone, slate roofs
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseBlackburn
ArchdeaconryLancaster
DeaneryKirkham
ParishSt John, Lytham
Clergy
Priest(s)Revd Jack Wixon
Laity
Reader(s)Nicola Whitehead
Churchwarden(s)Kay Hopper, Sheila Storey
Parish administratorChrystine Butcher

St John's Church is in East Beach,

Anglican parish church in the deanery of Kirkham, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[2]

History

The church was designed by

lych gate was erected in memory of Revd T. G. Smart, vicar of the church, who had died in the previous year.[5] In about 1920 a southeast chapel was remodelled as a war memorial chapel by Frank Mee.[3]

Architecture

Exterior

St John's is built in

Early English style. Its plan consists of a narrow nave with a clerestory, wide north and south aisles, north and south transepts, and a chancel with a south chapel and a north vestry. Attached to the south aisle is a four-stage tower with corner pilasters. There is a doorway in the bottom stage, narrow lancet windows in the second and third stages, and louvred lancet bell openings in the top stage. Surmounting the tower is a broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes. Along the sides of the aisles are buttresses and paired lancet windows, and the clerestory has pilasters and small triple lancets. In the west wall of the nave are buttresses and two tall lancets. The transepts each have three very narrow lancets with a circular window above them. The east window consists of three stepped lancets.[2]

Interior

Inside the church are six-

Conacher of Huddersfield in 1874 and 1888, and in 1950 by Hele of Plymouth.[6] There is a ring of six bells, all cast in 1875 by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.[7]

External features

The wall running along the south side of the churchyard and the

timber-framed on stone piers, and has a roof of fishscale slates and terracotta ridge tiles with wooden finials.[5]

Appraisal

The church was designated as a Grade II* listed building on 13 January 1971.

Buildings of England series, Hartwell and Pevsner state that "the interior shows Shellard at his best".[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ St John the Divine, Lytham, Church of England, retrieved 18 November 2013
  2. ^ a b c d e Historic England, "Church of St John, Lytham (1196368)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 18 November 2013
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
  4. ^ St John the Divine, Lytham, GENUKI, retrieved 18 November 2013
  5. ^ a b Historic England, "Lych Gate and southern boundary wall to Church of St John, Lytham (1218906)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 18 November 2013
  6. National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies
    , retrieved 29 June 2020
  7. ^ Lytham, S John Div, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, retrieved 18 November 2013
  8. ^ Listed Buildings, Historic England, retrieved 7 April 2015

External links

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