St. John The Evangelist Church - 25 YEARS - Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK
N 53° 02.188 W 002° 14.845
30U E 550463 N 5876592
A plaque located on the wall of St. John The Evangelist Church commemorates the Silver Jubilee of the opening of the Church.
Waymark Code: WM152T1
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/04/2021
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A plaque located on the wall of St. John The Evangelist Church, on Loomer Road in Chesterton, commemorates the Silver Jubilee of the opening of the Church.
St John the Evangelist Catholic Church is in the Deanery of Stoke-on-Trent and is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham. (
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The black plaque with gold lettering is mounted on the wall next to a Calvary Cross. The cross known as a Calvary is named after the place where it is believed that Christ was crucified.
The cross is in the form of a wooden Calvary with a stone figure of Christ. The statue depicts Jesus Christ naked apart from a loin cloth with a crown of thorns on his head. Nails holding him to the cross can be seen through his hands and feet.
The inscription on the plaque reads as follows;
Erected by the Parishioners
of St,John's to mark
the Silver Jubilee of the
opening of the Church
1978 - 2003St John the Evangelist Church is a "small and functional polygonal building of 1980 with exposed laminated trusses.
Mass was first said here from Newcastle in a converted terraced house. The parish was established in 1947. In due course the Rev. Tim Cronin acquired a plot of land in Loomer Road and built a presbytery and adjoined church hall in 1955-6 under Stafford architects Sandy & Norris. This now serves as the parish hall.
In 1980 the present church was completed (Scarisbrick). The architect-designer of the church has not been established, but it bears the characteristics of Messrs Lanner of Wakefield.
The church is faced with red brick and consists of an octagonal body under a concrete-tiled roof with a flat-roofed entrance porch/narthex with a WC and confessional. Above the main space is a pyramidal spike (perhaps of fibreglass). The windows are tall and rectangular and have been replaced in UPVC. Inside, the framing of the building is exposed with laminated timber trusses which crank upwards to the apex of the ceiling. The walls are mostly of buff brick but the area behind the sanctuary (which faces the entrance) is wood panelled. There are no fittings or furnishings requiring particular mention."
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