St John's Church, Hutton Roof

St John's Church, Hutton Roof
St John's Church, Hutton Roof, from the north
St John's Church, Hutton Roof Location in Cumbria
Coordinates: 54°12′11″N 2°39′42″W / 54.2031°N 2.6617°W
OS grid reference	SD 569,788
Location	Hutton Roof, Cumbria
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St John, Hutton Roof
History
Dedication	Saint John the Divine
Consecrated	9 August 1881
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	12 February 1962
Architect(s)	Paley and Austin
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1880
Completed	1881
Specifications
Materials	Stone with ashlar dressings Slate roof
Administration
Parish	Kirkby Lonsdale
Deanery	Kendal
Archdeaconry	Westmorland and Furness
Diocese	Carlisle
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	Rev Richard John Snow

St John's Church is in the village of Hutton Roof, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Kendal, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of seven local parishes, the benefice being entitled Kirkby Lonsdale Team Ministry,^[1] and known locally as the Rainbow Parish.^[2] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.^[3]

History

The church was built in 1880–81. The architects were the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin.^[3] It replaced an earlier chapel built in 1757. The new church cost £2,500 (equivalent to £230,000 as of 2015),^[4][5] The foundation stone was laid on 25 June 1880, and the church was consecrated on 9 August 1881. The vicar of the church between 1913 and 1918 was Rev Theodore Bayley Hardy.^[6] As chaplain to the British Army, Hardy was the most decorated non-combatant in the First World War, receiving the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Service Order, and the Military Cross for the assistance he gave to the wounded.^[7]

Architecture

St John's is constructed in stone with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof.^[3] Its architectural style is Perpendicular.^[8] Its plan consists of a two-bay nave, a north aisle, a chancel with an organ loft and vestry to the north, and a southwest tower incorporating a porch. The tower has a stair turret on its southwest corner and a buttress at the southeast corner. In its top stage are two-light bell openings with louvres. The parapet is embattled, and on the summit of the tower is a pyramidal roof with a weathervane carrying the date 1881. The entrance to the church is on the south of the tower. Inside the church there is a four-bay arcade. In the vestry are two stones from an earlier church, one dated 1616 and the other 1757.^[3] The stained glass in the west window, dated 1880, is by Shrigley and Hunt. Elsewhere there is glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.^[9]

See also

• List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin

References

1. St John the Divine, Hutton Roof, Church of England, retrieved 11 June 2011
2. Kirkby Lonsdale's Religious Life, Kirkby Lonsdale Online, retrieved 28 May 2012
3. Historic England, "Church of St John, Hutton Roof (1086877)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 28 May 2012
4. 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.
5. Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 232, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
6. St John's Church, retrieved 20 June 2011
7. Coulson, Bob (2003), The Chaplain VCs of the Great War, Hellfire Corner, retrieved 20 June 2011
8. Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 83, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
9. Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 419, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1