Thursday, 14 November 2013

St John the Evangelist, CofE, Bolton Rd, Irlams o’th’Height (1842)
 (photo by Mrs Josie Potkin)

Architect unknown but possibly William Hayley. Chancel added in 1859-60, baptistery in 1882, and interior remodelled in 1881. (Hartwell, Hyde and Pevsner, Buildings of England: Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, p. 561. Note that the Anglicans used the round-arch style some fifty years before the Roman Catholics.

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