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St John's Blackheath (formally known as St John the Evangelist's Church) is a Church designed by Arthur Ashpitel and built in the early 1850s in a largely Perpendicular Gothic Revivaland style, which was popular within the Anglican evangelicalism movement, but containing some Decorated Gothic Revival elements such as the porches on both sides. It stands on an island surrounded by roads and housing, and is clearly visible in the streetscape, especially from the west. It is built of Kentish Ragstone, a local material, and has a roof of Welsh slate. The body of the church consists of a nave with aisles on both sides, an aisled chancel with a lower roofline and flanked by a vestry and an organ chamber, porches on two sides, and the bell tower on the middle west end, which contains 3 clocks on the front and two sides and a single bell which is rung manually with a rope at the front entrance of the Church. The residential area now known as Vanbrugh Park, east of Greenwich Park and north of the present A2 road, was laid out in the early Victorian era. Architect Arthur Ashpitel from Hackney was commissioned to design a new church for this district, which at the time was in the county of Kent. Some stained glass windows in the north aisle were destroyed during World War II and were subsequently replaced. The interior was altered in 1999. This change meant that some of the space at the west end was now taken up by new, upgraded facilities such as offices. Inside, the fittings date mostly from the late 19th century and include a reredos by H.S. Rogers and the west-end gallery installed by D. Drury in 1898, which was removed during the 1999 reordering. Additionally, the firm of Heaton, Butler and Bayne designed many of the stained-glass windows that decorate the building. SOURCE: Summary from information on Wikipedia (08-10-2023) |
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| AuthorRIBES i LÓPEZ, Mario (08-10-2023) RIBES i LÓPEZ, Mario (03-12-2023) |
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