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Latitude: 54.9293 / 54°55'45"N
Longitude: -2.9249 / 2°55'29"W
OS Eastings: 340826
OS Northings: 559796
OS Grid: NY408597
Mapcode National: GBR 8C0F.KR
Mapcode Global: WH7ZX.1CGG
Plus Code: 9C6VW3HG+P2
Entry Name: Church of St John
Listing Date: 22 September 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1119626
English Heritage Legacy ID: 77658
ID on this website: 101119626
Location: St John's Church, Houghton, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA6
County: Cumbria
District: Carlisle
Civil Parish: Stanwix Rural
Built-Up Area: Houghton
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Houghton St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Church building
STANWIX RURAL HOUGHTON
NY 45 NW
5/77 Church of St John
II
Church. 1840-42, built as copy of Stanwix Church, Carlisle. Snecked ashlar
yellow sandstone, from Chalk Quarry, Dalston, slate roof. 3 storeys east tower
with 4 bay nave-chancel. Tower has pointed entrance arch with hood mould:
similar windows in bell chamber, with Y-tracery and louvred slats: diagonal
buttresses at angles with corner pinnacles and corbelled and castellated
parapet. Clock above entrance is of 1901. Pointed arch windows and hood moulds
to nave: diagonal buttresses at angles, with corner pinnacles and cross as
gable pinnacle. Interior renovated 1901 by C.J. Ferguson: pine pews, carved
oak pulpit and lectern, pitch-pine panelled ceiling. Red cement floor with
chancel floor of black and white marble. Font of carved Caen stone, with red
marble pillars of 1898. Windows of Moorish pattern, in plain leaded glass by
Cleator & Sons, London, 1897. Not an ancient site.
Listing NGR: NY4082659796
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