OS grid reference SJ 952,978 Denomination Anglican Founded 3 September 1838 Phone +44 161 338 8199 | Country England Website St John's, Dukinfield Opened 1840 Architect Edmund Sharpe | |
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Location Dukinfield, Greater Manchester Address Vicarage Drive, Dukinfield SK16 5HZ, United Kingdom Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture Similar St George's Church - Stalybridge, Coronation Chair, Christ Church - Chatburn, St Mary's Church - Knowsley, St Mark's Church - Blackburn | ||
St John's Church is in Oxford Road, Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Mottram, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the diocese of Chester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It stands in an elevated position at the top of a small hill.
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History
St John's is a Commissioners' church designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe, and built in 1838–40. The church cost £3,299 (equivalent to £270,000 in 2015) to build and £2,599 of this was met by a grant from the Church Building Commission. The foundation stone was laid on 3 September 1838, the same day as that at St George's Church, Stalybridge, also designed by Sharpe. It was consecrated on 24 May 1841 by Rt Revd John Bird Sumner, who was at that time the Bishop of Chester. The church opened for worship in July. It provided seating for 1,234 people. Fifty years later the church was restored, with little alteration other than the addition of two windows to the chancel.
Architecture
The church is built in stone with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with north and south aisles, a short single-bay chancel, and a tower at the west end. The tower is in four stages, it has a west door, and at the top is a coped parapet and pinnacles. A coped parapet also runs along the walls and gables of the church. The windows are paired lancets. Inside the church are galleries on three sides. The galleries and the nave arcades are supported by octagonal columns. The organ is in the west gallery.