Ashbrooke Crescent, Church of St. John
Ashbrooke Crescent, Church of St. John
HER Number
7112
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Ashbrooke Crescent, Church of St. John
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Wesleyan Methodist church with hall attached. 1887-8 and hall c1907 by Robert Curwen; main contractors J.H. Thorp and sons, Leeds. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar sandstone dressings and interior. Prudhoe stone for tower and Denwick for interior. Lakeland slate roof. Early English style. Meeting rooms in undercroft. Hall has central round stair tower. Octagonal stone spire.
Interior – plaster and ashlar. Hammer beam roof. High quality furnishings throughout include pulpit and reading desk on stone pedestals, with remarkable pulpit handrail of brass in form of serpent. Brass and cast-iron communion rail with sunflower and leaf patterns. Choir pews with carved ends. Small brightly coloured lancet of 1888 in north transept to son, aged 9 of first minister. East window commemorating T.C. Squance (d.1897), with scenes from life of Christ. High quality west window to J.W. Taylor with scenes of Crucifixion across all lights. LISTED GRADE 2
Interior – plaster and ashlar. Hammer beam roof. High quality furnishings throughout include pulpit and reading desk on stone pedestals, with remarkable pulpit handrail of brass in form of serpent. Brass and cast-iron communion rail with sunflower and leaf patterns. Choir pews with carved ends. Small brightly coloured lancet of 1888 in north transept to son, aged 9 of first minister. East window commemorating T.C. Squance (d.1897), with scenes from life of Christ. High quality west window to J.W. Taylor with scenes of Crucifixion across all lights. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
439540
Northing
555870
Grid Reference
NZ439540555870
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/16/7; T. Corfe and G. Milburn, 1984, Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland, p 18
G. Milburn et al, 1988, St John’s, Ashbrooke 1888-1988, pp 16-35; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 452
G. Milburn et al, 1988, St John’s, Ashbrooke 1888-1988, pp 16-35; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 452