Description

SJ 97 NW BOLLINGTON CHURCH STREET
(West Side)

2/14 Church of St. John the
Baptist.

II

Church: 1832-4 by Hayley and Brown for the Church Commissioners.
Hammer-dressed buff sandstone with ashlar dressings, and Welsh slate
roof. The church has a 5-bay nave, short chancel, west tower and
small vestry at the east. Bays of nave, divided by set-back
buttresses, have tall splayed 2-light windows with Y-tracery, under a
continuous label mould. Embattled parapets. Nave ends in octagonal
buttresses with pointed finials. Similar buttresses to chancel which
has a triple lancet window. 4-stage tower has similar corner
buttresses and on flanking walls. Rebated pointed west doorcase has a
3-light window with intersecting tracery above. 3rd stage has a clock
and 4th stage louvred bell openings similar to nave windows.
Embattled top.
Interior: Galleries on 3 sides, erected 1854, have lancet moulded
panels, and are supported on clusters of 4 thin iron columns.
Remainder of interior altered.

Listing NGR: SJ9389977781

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St John the Baptist's Church, Bollington at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7593710

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)