Truro, St John the Evangelist
Historic England grade II , list entry 1201497 .
Location
Location map.
GPS coordinates: (50.260131, -5.053622)
Notes on the church
Foundation stone laid 5th April 1827 : J Polsue, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, vol II p 332 . William Lake, Truro, 1868 .
Opened Royal Cornwall Gazette May 3, 1828 p 2 .
Consecrated 26th July 1828 : Royal Cornwall Gazette August 2, 1828 p 2 .
1828 - P. Sambell £1842 (Port, MH, Six Hundred New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818–1856 , p 331. Reading, Spire Books Ltd., 2006 ).
Kelly’s Directory of Cornwall 1873 p 878 .
Kelly’s Directory of Cornwall 1883 p 1035 .
Reopened after alterations 12th October 1884 including description of windows
Royal Cornwall Gazette October 17, 1884 p 5 .
Truro Diocesan Kalendar 1885 p 150 (9th March 1884 ). Heard & Sons, Truro (D/E/3/3 , D/E/4/2 ) -
mentions two windows inserted after restoration.
Altered 1883 –1900 ,
architect Joseph Arthur Reeve
(Park, Jo. The Church of St John the Evangelist, Truro .
1984
): restored.
Kelly’s Directory of Cornwall 1893 p 1294 .
The windows are listed starting from liturgical east and going
round clockwise, looking down on the building from above.
Insertion dates are given when a window has been replaced.