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Church of Saint John the Baptist (Middleton) — Church Lane

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Church of Saint John the Baptist (Middleton) — Church Lane
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Freestanding Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1823, comprising three-bay nave and square-plan three-stage tower with hexagonal-plan to third stage having pinnacles and limestone spire. Flanking crenellated porches to north and south elevations. Renovated in late nineteenth century. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Snecked limestone walls with buttresses, pinnacles to corners and east gable. Date stone to front (west) elevation. Pointed arch openings to nave having limestone hood mouldings over tripartite lancet Y-tracery fifteen-over-fifteen pane timber sliding sash windows. Paired ogee-headed lancet windows to porches having limestone label mouldings, carved spandrels and Y-tracery fixed windows. Oculus to rear having multifoil window. Pointed arch opening to rear having hood moulding, ornate traceried overlight and quadripartite lancet stained glass windows. Pointed arch openings to tower, third stage having hood mouldings, some with timber fittings, some blocked up. Pointed arch opening to front having limestone hood moulding, roll moulded surround and ornate timber panelled double-leaf doors. Limestone step and threshold to entrance. Rubble limestone boundary walls with round-headed pedestrian entrance to north-east having cut block-and-start limestone surround and single-leaf cast-iron gate. Pair of square-profile snecked piers with carved caps, plinths and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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