Church of St John Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1968. Church.

Church of St John Evangelist

WRENN ID
young-wall-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1968
Type
Church
Address
Church of St John Evangelist, Read
OS grid reference
SD 765 347
Coordinates
53.80865, -2.35716
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St John Evangelist, built in 1884 by Ross of Accrington, features a tower added in 1911. It is constructed of rock-faced sandstone with a slate roof. The church includes a west tower with a west chapel, a nave, a lower chancel with a three-sided apsidal east end, a north lean-to organ chamber and vestry, a gabled projection on the south, and a south porch. The nave has five bays on the north side and four on the south, with paired chamfered lancets. The porch is timber-framed above a stone base. The tower, offset to the south against the west wall, has angle buttresses that end in gablets supporting a stone spire. The bell openings consist of two trefoiled lights with a trefoil under a pointed head, similar to the west window. To the north of the tower, there is a single-storey lean-to chapel with three windows, each containing one trefoiled light. Inside, the nave features scissor-braced trusses. At the west end, two moulded pointed arches with octagonal columns and semi-octagonal responds lead into the chapel, while a smaller arch to the south opens into the lower stage of the tower. The chancel arch is pointed and chamfered in two orders.

Local climate

Church of St John 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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