Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. Church.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- frozen-turret-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Chapel Lane, Ellel, LA2 0PW
- OS grid reference
- SD 486 558
- Coordinates
- 53.99606, -2.78552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John, built between 1906 and 1907 by architects Austin and Paley, is a Grade II listed building located in Ellel. Constructed from sandstone rubble with a red tile roof, the church features a nave with a clerestorey on the north side, a north aisle, a crossing tower, a north transept, a vestry, and a chancel.
The south wall of the nave consists of three bays, each with windows of three, three, and two lights that have segmental heads and free Perpendicular tracery. To the right, there is a single clerestorey window with two lights and elliptical heads, followed by a doorway with a pointed head. A porch to the left features a pointed arch doorway and gable coping topped with a cross finial. The north aisle windows contain two and three cusped ogee lights beneath flat heads, while the clerestorey windows have two lights with elliptical heads under flat lintels. The tower is buttressed on both the north and south sides and includes a stair turret on the south. The second stage of the tower features a window with a pointed head and tracery, and the bell openings consist of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head. The tower is capped with solid coping, as the intended spire was never constructed. The chancel has a south window with two lights and a segmental head with tracery, and the east window features five lights under a pointed head with tracery.
Inside, the six-bay nave arcade is characterized by pointed arches that are chamfered in two orders, with piers that alternate between round and octagonal shapes. The roof is supported by trusses with arch-braced collars and king posts, alternating with tie-beam trusses that also have collars, king posts with curved braces to the principals, and curved queen struts. The crossing features pointed arches with mouldings that die into round piers. The south transept was not constructed, leaving an external wall behind its arch. The chancel includes a piscina with a cusped head, and the windows contain glass from various early 20th-century dates.
Local climate
Church of St John sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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