St John the Evangelist's Church, Woodland

St John the Evangelist's Church, Woodland

St John the Evangelist's Church, Woodland, from the southeast
St John the Evangelist's Church, Woodland
Location in Cumbria
Coordinates: 54°17′31″N 3°09′29″W / 54.29195°N 3.15796°W / 54.29195; -3.15796
Location Woodland, Cumbria
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St John the Evangelist, Woodland
Architecture
Architect(s) E. G. Paley
Architectural type Church
Groundbreaking 1864
Completed 1865
Construction cost Nearly £1,000
Administration
Parish Broughton and Duddon
Deanery Furness
Archdeaconry Westmorland and Furness
Diocese Carlisle
Province York
Clergy
Vicar(s) Revd Canon Nick Thornley

St John the Evangelist's Church is in the hamlet of Woodland, about 4 kilometres (2 mi) to the northeast of Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of St Mary Magdalene, Broughton-in-Furness, Holy Innocents, Broughton Mills, St John, Ulpha, and Holy Trinity, Seathwaite.[1]

The church was built in 1864–65, and was the third church to be built on the site. The earlier churches had been built in 1698 and 1822. The present church was designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley, having been designed by him in 1862.[2] It cost nearly £1,000 (equivalent to £90,000 in 2015),[3] and provided seating for 150 people.[4] In 1868–69 a parsonage was built for the church, which was also designed by Paley.[5]

St John's is a small and simple church, like many other churches nearby, consisting of only a nave and an apse. It has a flat-topped bellcote, which is surmounted by four small spikes, each in the form of an obelisk.[2]

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References

Citations

  1. ↑ Woodland: St John the Evangelist, Woodland, Church of England, retrieved 15 May 2013
  2. 1 2 Hyde & Pevsner (2010), p. 697
  3. ↑ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  4. ↑ Brandwood et al. (2012), p. 221
  5. ↑ Brandwood et al. (2012), p. 223

Sources

  • Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8 
  • Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1 
Interior of the church
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