Church of St. John is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. A C19 Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St. John
- WRENN ID
- iron-cloister-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St. John, Church Lane, the Yealands
- OS grid reference
- SD 507 748
- Coordinates
- 54.16688, -2.75651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. John is a church built in 1838, with later additions in 1861 and 1882. It is constructed of limestone rubble with limestone dressings in the earlier sections and sandstone dressings in the later chancel. The tower is pebbledashed and the roof is slate. The church features a nave, a chancel with a steeper roof pitch, and a north aisle with a pitched roof.
A tower rises above the west wall, topped with a projecting battlemented parapet. The west wall contains a doorway flanked by buttresses, featuring a pointed head and a hood mould with a square section. On either side of the doorway are lancet windows, also with hood moulds, and there are buttresses at the corners of the wall. Above the doorway, there is a string course and a first-floor window with a pointed head, drip mould, and wooden Y-tracery.
The south nave wall consists of five bays separated by buttresses, each bay containing lancet windows and a continuous drip course of square section. The east bay has been reconstructed with sandstone dressings. The chancel features two paired cusped lights in the south wall, while the east wall is supported by three large buttresses and has a three-light window with intersecting tracery and trefoils. The east wall of the north aisle has windows with two cusped lights and a trefoil, mirrored by a similar window in the west wall. The north wall contains four sandstone lancets, each with hood moulds.
Local climate
Church of St. John sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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