Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1976. Church.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- high-transept-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1976
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Church Lane, Sandbach
- OS grid reference
- SJ 775 615
- Coordinates
- 53.15074, -2.33726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John was built in 1861 and designed by the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is constructed in an early Gothic style using yellow stone with red sandstone dressings. The church features a nave, north and south transepts, a chancel, and a central tower topped with a spire. The windows are adorned with plate tracery. Inside, the church has an ashlar-faced interior with richly carved capitals.
Local climate
Church of St John sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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