St John the Baptist, Tideswell

Heritage listing

Details SK 1575; 7/14 PARISH OF TIDESWELL, COMMERCIAL ROAD (North-West Side) Church of St John the Baptist 12.07.67 GV I Church. C14, restored in 1873 by J D Sedding. Coursed gritstone with ashlar dressings, lead covered pitched roofs, with coped gables to transepts, chancel, and above chancel arch, which also carries C19 bellcote. West tower, south porch, north and south aisles and transepts, nave with clerestory, chancel and sacristy. Two-stage tower with angle buttresses to first stage, bell stage with embattled parapet. Octagonal corner towers with crocketed pinnacles, and between towers, crocketed pinnacles rise from parapet. Bell stage has coupled pointed arched opening with transomed Y-tracery below hoodmoulds. Shallow corbel-table above window heads has moulded string course above, surmounted by parapet. Tall Perp 5-light west window with panel tracery above west door, with pointed arched head. Small rectangular lights to upper part of first stage and clock to south wall. Two-storey porch with diagonal stepped buttresses, pointed arched doorway with hoodmould and embattled parapet above moulded string course. Narrow lancets light first floor. North and south aisles of four bays rise from triple-stepped plinth which continues around the building. Aisle windows of three lights with curvilinear tracery with moulded string course and embattled parapet above. Aisle bays delineated by stepped buttresses terminating at the string course. Three-light clerestory windows of two lights with ogee heads supporting a quatrefoil, beneath a hoodmould. String course above, and embattled parapet. North and south transepts, each of two bays, with stepped diagonal buttresses and pinnacles. Parapets with embattled centres, behind which rise the coped gables of the transepts. Tall, 5

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.