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Description: Church of St. John

Address: St. Johns Church Church Bank Lane Cragg Vale Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Church Bank Lane, Cragg Vale

Full description:
Church, 1839 rebuilding of earlier church of which there is no evidence (date plaque inside). Dressed stone, slate roof. West tower, nave and shallow chancel. Lancet style. 3-stage embattled tower has angle buttresses which rise to form pinnacles. All windows are tall lancets with deeply double chamfered surrounds and pointed arches. Windows to each stage of tower in west face only. Doorway set in north face, 2nd stage has clock to north and south faces; 3rd stage is belfry. Aisless nave of 4 bays, each with tall windows articulated by shallow buttresses. Corbel table. Angle buttresses with pinnales to corners. Shallow single-bay chancel has tall east window with panelled tracery, and angle buttresses with outshuts to either side with lean-to roofs and pointed arched doorways. Interior: single vessel with shallow chancel set within pointed arch. Gallery to west end carried on clustered iron collonnettes; brattished rail with panelled front with arched heads. Flat roof with moulded ribs. Memorial to Rev. Thomas Crowther the original minister "38 years in this Parish" dated 1859.