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St John, Cleator Moor
St John's Church
Cleator Moor Church
Street:-   Leconfield Street
locality:-   Cleator Moor
civil parish:-   Cleator Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church (disused) 
coordinates:-   NY01471531
1Km square:-   NY0115
10Km square:-   NY01
references:-   : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5


photograph
BLY48.jpg (taken 24.4.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- Nurse 1918
source data:-   Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 2nd edn 1939.
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NUR1NY01.jpg
"CLEATOR MOOR"
item:-  JandMN : 27
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Church of St John Evangelist
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHURCH OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST / / LECONFIELD STREET / CLEATOR MOOR / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76108 / NY0147915311"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Parish Church. 1872 by Cory and Ferguson (Carlisle); restored 1900. Snecked sandstone blocks with quoins and buttresses; chamfered plinth to chancel. Graduated slate roofs with chapel outshut to either side of chancel; stone copings and kneelers. Romanesque style; west tower, nave with aisles, chancel. 3-stage tower has paired belfry opening under containing arch with trellis decoration to spandrel; blind recess on either side similarly decorated. Tower stair turret projects on south side at junction with nave; external door. Main door on north side of nave has 4 semicircular orders; 3 outer are decoratively carved, carried between waterleaf capitals on en-delit shafts. Single aisle and clerestory window to each bay of nave; chancel has 3 stepped windows to east end. All windows round-headed under hoodmoulds. Whitewashed brick interior. 4-bay nave arcade of semicircular arches carried between waterleaf capitals on quatrefoil piers. Quadrant vaults to aisles and pointed barrel vault to main vessel, both with transverse arches. Intersecting rib vault to chancel. Polygonal carved wood pulpit to left of chancel arch in nave, matching vicar's stall to right. Carved stone font, on 5 marble shafts, in baptistry to ground floor of tower."

 ring of bells

dedication
person:-    : St John
place:-   Cleator Moor / Carlisle Diocese

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