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[[Category:19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom]]
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[[Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in Merseyside]]
[[Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in Merseyside]]
[[Category:Gothic Revival architecture in Merseyside]]
Church in Merseyside, England
St John the Evangelist’s Church is in Fountains Road, Kirkdale , Liverpool , Merseyside , England. It is an active Roman Catholic parish church in Pastoral Area of Liverpool North, in the Archdiocese of Liverpool .[ 1] National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building .[ 2] [ a]
The church was built in 1885, and designed by J. and B. Sinnott. The north chapel was added in 1927.[ 4]
St John’s is constructed in rock-faced stone, with ashlar bands and dressings, under a slate roof. It consists of a nave and chancel with no structural division, north and south aisles under lean-to roofs, a clerestory , north and south transepts , north and south chapels, a canted baptistry at the west end, and a southwest porch.[ 2] turret with a belfry , and an octagonal pyramidal roof.[ 4] Geometrical tracery . Along the sides of the aisles are three-light windows, and along the clerestory are two-light windows, all of which are paired between buttresses . The south transept has a five-light window, and the north transept forms the organ loft. The east window has seven lights, and each chapel has a rose window . The porch has a pointed arch and a shaped gable .[ 2]
Inside the church is a west gallery. The nave has a waggon roof , and four-bay arcades carried on round columns. The chancel arcade has two bays with clustered columns. The reredos is in wrought iron .[ 2] Pugin & Pugin .[ 4]
References and notes
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Notes
^ This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to “buildings of national importance and special interest”.[ 3]
Citations
^ Liverpool North Archdiocese of Liverpool , retrieved 27 May 2013 ^ a b c d Historic England , “Church of St John the Evangelist, Fountains Road, Liverpool (1068245)” , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 27 May 2013 ^ Listed Buildings , retrieved 7 April 2015 ^ a b c Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , p. 435, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool
Churches Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral – Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, St Mary of the Isle Cathedral, Douglas – Co-cathedral on the Isle of ManChurch of St Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith, Ashton-in-Makerfield St Mary’s Church, Billinge St Joseph’s Church, Birkdale Church of St Teresa of Avila, Birkdale Church of St Monica, Bootle St Michael’s Church, Ditton St Anne’s Church, Edge Hill Sacred Heart Church, Hindsford Church of the Holy Family, Ince Blundell St John the Evangelist’s Church, Kirkdale St Joseph’s Church, Leigh St Mary’s Church, Little Crosby Our Lady of the Annunciation Church, Liverpool Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Liverpool Church of Our Lady of Reconciliation, Liverpool Sacred Heart Church, Liverpool St Aloysius Church, Liverpool St Anthony’s Church, Scotland Road St Anthony of Padua Church, Liverpool St Clare’s Church, Liverpool St Francis Xavier Church, Liverpool St Mary’s Church, Woolton St Oswald’s Church, Liverpool St Patrick’s Church, Liverpool Church of St Philip Neri, Liverpool Church of St Vincent de Paul, Liverpool St Oswald’s Church, Padgate Our Lady and All Saints Church, Parbold Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Portico Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church, Prescot St Bartholomew’s Church, Rainhill Our Lady, Star of the Sea & St Maughold Church, Ramsey Our Lady Star of the Sea, Seaforth Church of St Mary, Lowe House Holy Cross Church, St Helens St Ambrose’s Church, Speke St Alban’s Church, Warrington St Benedict’s Church, Warrington St Mary’s Church, Warrington St Bede’s Church, Widnes St John’s Church, Wigan St Jude’s Church, Wigan St Mary’s Church, Wigan
Schools St Mary’s College, Crosby The Academy of St Francis of Assisi The Academy of St Nicholas All Hallows Catholic High School All Saints Catholic High School, Kirkby Archbishop Beck Catholic College Bellerive FCJ Catholic College Broughton Hall High School Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School Carmel College (St Helens) Christ the King Catholic High School, Southport De La Salle School, St Helens Holy Cross Catholic High School, Chorley Holy Family Catholic High School, Thornton Hope Academy Maricourt Catholic School Notre Dame Catholic College, Liverpool Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College Sacred Heart Catholic College St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Academy St Bede’s Catholic High School, Ormskirk St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic Academy, Whiston St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield St Edward’s College St Francis Xavier’s College, Liverpool St John Bosco Arts College St John Fisher Catholic High School, Wigan St Julie’s Catholic High School St Mary’s Catholic High School, Astley St Mary’s Catholic High School, Leyland St Peter’s Catholic High School Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco
