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Report - Crawshawbooth Church. January 2016.

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Ferox

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Visited this place with Urblex. Cool to get out with you as always mate
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Bumped into a couple of local explores here, we pretty much arrived at the same time. Nice to meet you lads
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A relaxed explore this one turned out to be around an interesting and untrashed church. Mold and damp where starting to take hold and the ceiling had collapsed in one corner of a room further exposing it to the elements. Getting up the belltower is mad. One hell of a tight and twisting staircase is that The bell is impressive when you finally get to it, a huge metal weight supported by massive wooden beams. We got to see the bell in St Saviours, Bacup later in the day and it was not a patch on this one. The big marble cross was quite impressive as well. Looking at other reports it seems that alot of the nativity figures have disappeared over the weeks. Christmas has been and gone after all I suppose
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Finally thanks to Vulex for his help with this one View attachment 669123

History

St John the Evangelist's Church is in the village of Crawshawbooth, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England. It is aredundant Anglican parish church formerly in the deanery of Rossendale, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester. Its benefice has been united with that of St Mary and All Saints, Goodshaw. The church is recorded in theNational Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
St John's was built between 1890 and 1892 to a design by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley. The estimated cost of the church was £6,800 but, because of problems with the foundations, its final cost, including the fittings, was nearer to £12,000 (£1,170,000 in 2016). It provided seating for 616 people. Financial donations towards the site and structure of the church were made by Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw of Crawshaw Hall. Because of diminishing numbers attending the church, and because of thefts of lead from the roof of the church, the congregation has decided to opt for the church to be declared redundant. The church was declared redundant on 20 February 2012.

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coolboyslim

Mr Reality Hacker
28DL Full Member
Fooking thief's scum of the earth. Brilliant pics of a really nice place. Love this little gem of a church. Thanks for the report and pics. Really enjoyed ringing that bell lol.
 
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Cjurbex

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
went here today to check it out but again my luck is rubbish! all boarded back up so couldn't get inside, got a few shots from the outside at least, maby ill go back one day :)
 
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