St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash, is a church in the
Knotty Ash area of
Liverpool,
Merseyside,
England.
It is on Thomas Lane and was built 1834–6.
The architects were Williams and Edwards and it was built by Richard and Paul Barker of
Huyton in red
ashlar
Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...
sandstone.
There is a narrow west tower with recessed spire and thin polygonal buttresses. It has tall church sides with three light perpendicular windows and thin buttresses. The taller chancel with south chapel is an 1890 addition by Aldridge and Deacon. There is an excellent late 19th century
Celtic cross
The Celtic cross is a form of Christian cross featuring a nimbus or ring that emerged in Ireland, France and Great Britain in the Early Middle Ages. A type of ringed cross, it became widespread through its use in the stone high crosses er ...
in the churchyard, finely carved. The churchyard contains
war graves of three soldiers, a
Royal Navy sailor and a
Royal Air Force officer of
World War I and three soldiers and an
airman of
World War II.
CWGC Cemetery Report. Breakdown obtained from casualty record.
Images
File:Nave, St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash 2.jpg, Nave towards the chancel
File:St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash 3a.jpg, West end and tower
File:Bencke monument, St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash.jpg, Celtic cross
See also
*
Grade II listed buildings in Liverpool-L14
Liverpool is a city and port in Merseyside, England, which contains many listed buildings. A listed building is a structure designated by English Heritage of being of architectural and/or of historical importance and, as such, is included in t ...
References
* ''The Buildings of England; Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West''; by Richard Pollard and Nikolaus Pevsner
Churches in Liverpool
Knotty Ash
Knotty Ash
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