Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- silent-groin-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Addison Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 763 290
- Coordinates
- 53.75766, -2.36069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a church built between 1864 and 1870 by H. Macauley. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a steeply pitched slate roof adorned with bands of green fishscale slates. The church is designed in a free early Gothic style and includes a nave with one aisle, transepts, a chancel, and a south-east tower topped with a spire.
The entrance is located at the south end, featuring double doors with a tympanum that has a carved emblem of the Evangelist set under a banded two-centred arch. There are paired lancet windows on either side of the entrance, and above it is a large plate traceried three-light window flanked by single-light windows. The five-bay nave has a gabled porch on the west side and three cross gables on the east side of the aisle, with trefoils in these gables. Most of the windows consist of two cusped lancets.
The tower is unusual, consisting of three stages and featuring free-standing pinnacles on colonnettes beside the octagonal spire. Inside, there is a three-bay aisle arcade supported by columns with crocketed capitals, a chancel arch with corbelled shafts, and a gallery at the south end. The roofs are wagon-shaped, with a polygonal design in the chancel.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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