St John the Evangelist, Cullingworth
St John the Evangelist, Cullingworth
St John’s is a Grade II parish church on St George’s Square, Cullingworth, West Yorkshire, in the Diocese of Leeds, a mid-Victorian village church in Early English lancet style.
- Location
- Cullingworth, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Cullingworth
- Address
- St Georges Square, Cullingworth, Yorkshire, BD13 5HN
- Postcode
- BD13 5HN
- Built
- c.1853; roof and south transept renewed c.1900
- Consecrated
- 29 April 1853
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- John the Evangelist
- Diocese
- Leeds
- Parish
- Cullingworth St John the Evangelist
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Early English lancet
- Materials
- Hammer-dressed stone with Westmorland green-slate roof
- Grid reference
- SE 067 369
- Opening hours
- Wednesday 2pm till 3pm. Tuesday and Friday 9.15am to 10.30am. Key available for pre-booked visits contact us.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Level access throughout. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records a church of about 1853, with the roof and south transept renewed about 1900 and the interior refitted in 1902. The fabric is hammer-dressed stone with a Westmorland green-slate roof. The plan is cruciform: nave, apsidal chancel, transepts and a south porch set in the base of the tower. The south front has a three-bay nave with two-light windows articulated by offset buttresses, a gabled transept with three lancets and a quatrefoil in the apex, and a tower with a western vice, a pointed-arched doorway with colonnettes, a clock and an octagonal broach spire with lucarnes. The semi-octagonal chancel sits under a lower roof; the nave has a steeply pitched roof with coped gables and a large five-light west window. The interior is relatively plain, with a five-bay nave roof of collar trusses and five memorial windows.
Local history compiled by Terry Hanson states that Cullingworth was in the parish of Bingley until it became a parish in 1847. Francis Sharp Powell of Wigan donated the site in 1851; the church is said to have cost about £2,000. It was consecrated on Friday 29 April 1853. After closing for renovations in 1902 it reopened in 1903.