Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- standing-merlon-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Oxford Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 952 978
- Coordinates
- 53.47713, -2.07261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a church built between 1838 and 1840 by E. Sharpe for the Church Commissioners. It is constructed from hammer-dressed stone and features a slate roof. The building has a three-sided gallery plan, a west tower, and a small chancel. It consists of five bays with a projecting plinth, a sill band, and a coped parapet. Each bay contains two lancet windows with hoodmoulds, separated by slender weathered buttresses. There is a sixth bay next to the tower that accommodates gallery staircases, and the chancel has one bay. The church has raked gable parapets.
The four-stage tower includes a west door, setback weathered buttresses against octagonal corner piers that rise to form pinnacles, clock apertures on the third stage, three stepped lancets in the belfry, and a coped parapet. Inside, octagonal columns support both the galleries and the nave arcade. The interior features a panelled ceiling, a west organ, stained glass windows, and a bowl-shaped stone font.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% 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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