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Information about the Church of St John the Evangelist

 

Image: The eagle is the emblem of St John the Evangelist

Some data about the Church of St John the Evangelist

 

How big is it?

Length 138 feet 6 inches (42.21m)
Width (Nave) 28 feet 6 inches (8.69m)
Width (Transepts) 90 feet 6 inches (27.58m)
Height overall 212 feet (64.62m)
Tower 100 feet (30.48m)

Spire 105 feet (32m)

Cross 7 feet (2.13m)
 

How much did it cost to build? £9,160
 
How many people does it hold? When it was built 1,000 people. Nowadays 750 approximately
 
Bells Eight bells weighing in total 3.3 tons


Some notable dates

1843-1848 Church built (In the Parish of Snaith)
1849
The Parish of Goole formed

1855 Gas lighting in the church

1852 Organ placed in the church

1859 Vicarage on Stanhope Street built
1868 Church catches fire in tower. Clock and the gas lights and the pulpit, all destroyed, and the church bell cracked.

1878 Churchyard full and closed

1883 East Window installed

1890 New bells, vestry and organ dedicated

1890/91 New Vicarage on Hook Road

1914 Parish is now in Sheffield Diocese (from York)
1923 Organ renovated

1929 Bells overhauled and chimes added to clock
1936
Crypt Chapel closed

1948 Church restored at a cost of £3,500

1980s New Vicarage, Clifton Gardens

1988 New ceiling and Nave Altar at a cost of £88,000
1998 April
Church celebrates 150 years with a new Bishop of Sheffield in his early weeks in the diocese.
2007 Vicarage moved to Salisbury Avenue

 

 

Some Vicars

 

1849-1855 Revd. William Shilleto

1855-1888 Revd. David Bell, had been a doctor both in Russia and in Ludlow before being ordained, and retired at the age of 80. His wife, Lady Dillon died within two months of her husband.
1888-1889 Revd. Clement J.F.Morton, came from Sheffield. Alas, he caught typhoid from the bad drains and died within two months, leaving a widow (for the second time) and three small children.

1889-1909 Canon William H. Carr. The new vicarage on Hook Road was built for him, and there were many alterations to the church.

1910-1916 Revd. Edmund Sinker. Goole became part of the new Diocese of Sheffield.

1916-1920 Revd. Charles E. Curzon, came from Sheffield, and when he left Goole went to London where he became Bishop of Stepney, and later Bishop of Exeter.

1920-1927 Rt. Revd. Geoffrey Lift, who had been Bishop of Shantung in China, was to be seen about the Town in formal dress, frock coat and gaiters!

1928-1936 Revd. Herbert E. Wall. Church bells overhauled, and the Crypt Chapel closed.

1937-1945 Revd. Lawrence L. Knightall, came from Doncaster, and whilst in Goole became a Canon of Sheffield Cathedral.
1945-1956 Revd. Ernest H. P. Rawlins, during whose time the church celebrated its centenary, and was restored, money being raised for the Diocesan Fund as well. He was appointed a Canon of Sheffield Cathedral in 1947.

1956-1961 Revd. Richard Hanson

1961-1967 Canon George Adkins

1967-1979 Canon Wilfred Hudson

1980-1995 Revd. Timothy Leach

1996 - Canon Gordon Taylor, now Vicar of Tickhill.

2005 - Revd John Stride, now Chaplain to the Courts in Sheffield.
2007 - Revd Tony Sophianou, came from Doncaster. Bishop's Urban Adviser for the Doncaster area and an adviser on Inter-faith matters.

 

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