St. John's Church, Worksop

Heritage listing

Details SK 57 NE WORKSOP GATEFORD ROAD (East side) 3/70 Church of St.John II Parish church. 1868. By R. C. Clarke and Son for Messrs. Machin and Foljambe. Decorated Revival style. Rockfaced ashlar with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Moulded chamfered plinth, buttresses, moulded string courses, moulded eaves and corbel table, balustrade, shouldered coped gables with kneelers and crosses. Gargoyles. Lancet windows with shafts with foliate capitals and hood moulds. Doors with similar hood moulds and stops. West tower, nave, chancel, north porch, north and south aisles, organ chamber and vestry. Buttressed 2 stage west tower has 4 pinnacles and broach spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes. Moulded west portal with shafts and shouldered doorway with inscribed tympanum. Foundation stone and single lancet to south. Stair turret to north. First stage has single lancets to west and south, and above, to west, clock. Second stage has a double lancet bell opening on each side. Clerestorey has 5 triple lancets on each side. Chancel, 2 bays, has 2 double lancets on each side, and to east, a triple lancet and above, vescia piscis. 5 bay north aisle has porch to west and 4 double lancets. Single bay north porch has moulded doorway with clustered shaft responds and stiff leaf capitals. A single trefoil opening on each side. Organ chamber has moulded doorway to north and blocked double lancet to east. Vestry has to east a square headed triple lancet and to south, a doorway with shouldered head. South aisle has 5 double lancets and a similar lancet to west. West porch has segmental headed doorway and rib vault on imposts. Nave arcades have 4 clustered piers with various foliate capitals, quatrefoil bases and chamfered and rebated arches with hood moulds. Sill band and clerestorey windows with sh

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.