Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1966. Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- sombre-flagstone-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden MP: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 743 058
- Coordinates
- 53.54862, -2.38789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a church built in 1826, with a chancel added in 1871. It is constructed of stone and has a slate roof. The building features a nave, a west tower, a chancel, a south vestry, and a north organ loft. The nave has five bays, a sill course, and two-light windows, most of which have segmental transoms, positioned between weathered buttresses. It also has a top cornice and a parapet. The tower includes octagonal turrets and string courses, with a pointed entrance that has a timber fanlight and two-light louvred bell-openings. The tower is topped with a cornice and an embattled parapet, and the turrets project above the parapet, originally capped with pinnacles. The flanking porches have two-light straight-headed windows with transoms and canted angles, along with entrances on the north and south sides.
The three-bay chancel features a five-light east window and high two-light windows on the north and south sides. The vestry has two-light windows flanking the entrance, which has a shouldered lintel, and the organ loft is similar to the vestry.
Inside, the nave has three galleries supported by octagonal columns, with pointed arcading on the fronts. The flat ceiling includes ribs and bosses. An octagonal font has a moulded shaft and panelled sides, and the arms of George I are displayed on the west gallery. The chancel features a king and queen post roof, with two-bay arcades and quatrefoil columns leading to the organ loft and vestry. The stalls have elaborate timber fronts, and the pulpit, made of timber on a stone quatrefoil column, dates from 1907. There is a parclose screen to the vestry, which projects into the nave, and the east wall is panelled with cresting. The church also contains good 19th-century stained glass in the east and south windows.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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