St John the Baptist's Church is a redundant church in Halton Gill, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. It has been converted into a house.
There appears to have been a church in Halton Gill by the late Mediaeval period; it was first recorded in 1577. William Fawcett left money to rebuild the church with an adjacent vicarage, and an endowment for a full-time priest provided that they also teach children during the week. The work was completed in 1626, at which time, it was a chapel of ease to St Oswald's Church, Arncliffe. A gallery was added in the 18th century.[1] In 1848, the church was described as "a neat edifice in the later English style".[2] The church was largely rebuilt in 1848, with only the north and west walls retained, while the vicarage was converted into a schoolroom. A dedicated schoolteacher was employed, and the church was ministered to by the priest from Arncliffe. The building was restored in 1891, with work including new foundations for the north wall, a new roof for the schoolroom, and redecoration of the church.[1] The school closed in 1958, the same year in which the building was grade II listed.[3] The church was redundant by 1979,[4] and the whole building was then converted into a house.[3]
The building is constructed of stone, with quoins, and stone slate roofs with coped gables. The former schoolhouse has one storey and one bay, and contains a doorway with a quoined surround, above which is an initialled plaque, and a window with three trefoiled lights. The former church to the right consists of a two-bay nave, a south porch, and a lower single-bay chancel, and at the west end is a bellcote.[3][5]
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- ^ a b Boyd, William; Shuffrey, William Arthur (1893). Littondale: Past and Present. Richard Jackson.
- ^ Lewis, Samuel (1848). A Topographical Dictionary of England. London.
- ^ a b c Historic England. "Schoolhouse and Church of St. John the Baptist, now house, Halton Gill (1132182)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ "Privy Council Office – Pastoral Measure 1968" (PDF). The London Gazette (47811). 5 April 1979. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.