Church of St John the Evangelist, Cheetham Hill

St John's is constructed in sandstone with tiled roofs. Its architectural style is a combination of Romanesque and Early English. The plan consists of a three-bay nave and a two-bay apsidal chancel, with no structural division between them, north and south aisles, a west porch, and a southwest tower. The tower is in four stages with clasping pilasters at the corners rising to pinnacles with pyramidal roofs; the tower itself also has a large pyramidal roof. In the bottom stage is a round-headed south doorway, and in the next stage is a single-light west window. The third stage contains blank arcading with two central lancet windows on each side, and the top stage has coupled and louvred bell openings. At the west end of the nave is a two-bay porch containing a double doorway flanked by large buttresses. Over the porch are three lancet windows, with a multifoil window above them. Most of the windows in the body of the church are lancets.^[2][5]

The interior of the church is lined in bricks with stone dressings. The piers of the north arcade have a quatrefoil plan, and those of the south arcade are octagonal. At the east end of the north aisle is the organ loft, and there is a chapel at the east end of the south aisle.^[5] The wooden pulpit is carved with sunflowers and leaves, anticipating motifs used by Art Nouveau.^[6] The large sculpted reredos was installed in 1879. Also in the apse are mosaic panels, and the chancel is floored with encaustic tiles.^[2] The stained glass includes windows by C. E. Kempe with depictions of saints, leaders of the church and Sir Philip Sidney.^[5] The three-manual pipe organ was made by Hill and Son, and rebuilt in 1895 by A. Young.^[7]

• Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester
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• List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin

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