Report - St John the Evangelist Church - Crawshawbooth - September 23

[MK83]

This has been posted a few times but not in its current state.

St John's was built between 1890 and 1892 to a design by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley. 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.

Access to this place is a bit of a pain and is a very tight squeeze. The decay is very nice and the place is relatively vandalism free surprisingly.

Thanks for looking.

 

[dansgas1000]

This is beautiful, one of the best churches I have seen. Lovely pics.

 

[HughieD]

That is damn fantastic.

 

[Mikeymutt🐶]

Brilliant stuff. The decay is perfect in here.

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Beautiful that. It was well sealed a few years back & we had good chat to neighbour who confirmed it was open once. Shame its so far from.me it will inevitably b sealed again soon

 

[TalkingMask]

This has been posted a few times but not in its current state.

St John's was built between 1890 and 1892 to a design by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley. 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.

Access to this place is a bit of a pain and is a very tight squeeze. The decay is very nice and the place is relatively vandalism free surprisingly.

Thanks for looking.

That level of decay and in a church too?!?
Couldn’t get any more gorgeous

 

[JakeV50]

This is one place I'd really like to see. Last time I was up that way, we ran out of time. Lovely photos

 

[Lndnpdd]

Lovely site and really well captured!

 

[MK83]

This is beautiful, one of the best churches I have seen. Lovely pics.

Thanks. It's the most photogenic church we've seen I think.

That is damn fantastic.

It is lovely. Seems to have got to that point were its improved with decay and age but is about to go downhill i think.

Brilliant stuff. The decay is perfect in here.

Cheers, it really is.

Beautiful that. It was well sealed a few years back & we had good chat to neighbour who confirmed it was open once. Shame its so far from.me it will inevitably b sealed again soon

We had a chat with one of the neighbours who seems fed up with people going in and is actively trying to get it sealed. Its doing the rounds a bit currently. Access is already a bit of a challenge, definitely one for skinny explorers 😂

That level of decay and in a church too?!?
Couldn’t get any more gorgeous

The decay in here is amazing.

This is one place I'd really like to see. Last time I was up that way, we ran out of time. Lovely photos

Thanks! It's well worth a visit.

Lovely site and really well captured!

Thanks!

 

[Bikin Glynn]

We had a chat with one of the neighbours who seems fed up with people going in and is actively trying to get it sealed. Its doing the rounds a bit currently. Access is already a bit of a challenge, definitely one for skinny explorers 😂

prob the same guy, he said it was open shortly before we were there but didnt seem to happy about it.
he was happy enough to talk to us about the history & who owned it etc & for us to take externals.

 

[MK83]

prob the same guy, he said it was open shortly before we were there but didnt seem to happy about it.
he was happy enough to talk to us about the history & who owned it etc & for us to take externals.

Probably, this chap chatted away about the history. He was telling us that he and a couple of the other neighbours have set up camera's on their houses to watch it. He pointed the one on the side of his house out. Seems to be trying to involve the police. Its not one to faff around outside, it seems quite chilled at first but unless your quick getting in you might get challenged.

 

[Shaun]

Tried this a couple of times no luck each time, you've seemed to got very lucky!

 

[MK83]

Tried this a couple of times no luck each time, you've seemed to got very lucky!

It's been accessible for a few weeks I think. Will probably be sealed soon though. It's a case of climbing a bit and some urbex contortion 😂

 

[JaffaTB]

Its a nice chilled out explore this place, didn't meet anybody on my 2 visits (1st was a fail) but glad to have it finally ticked off, the journey up to the bell is a bit of a challenge, although i did feel like i was in a medieval castle with the steepness and how thin they are, also saw your post on FB

 

[MK83]

Its a nice chilled out explore this place, didn't meet anybody on my 2 visits (1st was a fail) but glad to have it finally ticked off, the journey up to the bell is a bit of a challenge, although i did feel like i was in a medieval castle with the steepness and how thin they are, also saw your post on FB

It is a nice explore, lovely place. we didn't see anyone till we left. I guess its luck of the draw whether the neighbours come out.