Saint John the Baptist Church, Penistone
Saint John the Baptist Church, Penistone Parish Church, or Penistone Church is a Church of England church in the Parish of Penistone, near Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England.Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Church of St John”, “St John the Baptist”, “St John the Baptist’s Church, Penistone”, and “St John’s”
- Address: Shrewsbury Road, Sheffield, S36 6DY
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Penistone Town Hall and Penistone Paramount Cinema.
Penistone Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penistone Town Hall is a municipal building in Shrewsury Road in Penistone, a town in South Yorkshire, in England. It serves as the meeting place of Penistone Town Council.
Penistone Paramount Cinema
Movie theater
Photo: DaveGorman, Public domain.
The Penistone Paramount Cinema is a community cinema and theatre in Shrewsbury Road in Penistone, near Barnsley, in the heart of the South Yorkshire Pennines. Besides the film releases, there are also live shows and monthly organ concerts. Penistone Paramount Cinema is situated 380 feet southeast of Saint John the Baptist Church, Penistone.
Penistone railway station
Railway station
Photo: DaveGorman, Public domain.
Penistone railway station serves the town of Penistone, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The current station, at the junction of the Woodhead Line and Penistone Line, opened in 1874; it replaced a station solely on the Woodhead Line, dating from the line's opening by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1845. Penistone railway station is situated 1,500 feet east of Saint John the Baptist Church, Penistone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Penistone and Cubley.
Penistone
Town
Photo: David Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penistone is a market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 13,270 at the 2021 census.
Cubley
Village
Photo: ChicXulub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cubley is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is about a mile to the south of Penistone town centre and essentially is now a part of Penistone.
Thurlstone
Village
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thurlstone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Penistone, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. Originally it was a small farming community.
Saint John the Baptist Church, Penistone
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Penistone, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.52593° or 53° 31′ 33″ northLongitude
-1.62964° or 1° 37′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C5WG9GC+94OpenStreetMap ID
way 27172549OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q7401481
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Italian—“Saint John the Baptist Church, Penistone” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Johannes de Doper Kerk”
- French: “église de Saint Jean Baptiste”
- French: “Église de Saint Jean Baptiste”
- German: “Kirche Johannes der Täufer”
- Italian: “San Giovanni Battista”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St John’s Garden and Penistone Library (temporary site).
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