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Church of St John the Evangelist

Bridlington, GB

Church of St John the Evangelist

St John's Church is the parish church of Sewerby, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. Sewerby was long in the parish of Bridlington Priory. Between 1846 and 1848, a church was built in the village, to the designs of George Gilbert Scott. The church was funded by Yarburgh Graeme, w

ho selected a Romanesque Revival style. This was not Scott's preference, and he later wrote that "difficulties arose from the fads of my employer". The church was restored in 1947 by Francis Johnson, his work including whitening most of the internal walls and picking out selected architectural features with colour, and putting plain glass in the nave windows. The building was grade II* listed in 1976. The church is built of sandstone with slate roofs, and consists of a nave, a north transept, a chancel, a northeast vestry, and a steeple at the southeast corner of the nave. The steeple has a slender tower with engaged shafts, two-light bell openings in arcades, and a splay-footed lead-covered spire. The openings in the church have round-arched heads, and at the west end is a large window with three orders flanked by three-arched arcades. The south doorway is in a gabled projection, and...

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