Former Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Church.
Former Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- lone-latch-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former Church of St John, Bacup Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 820 226
- Coordinates
- 53.70037, -2.27342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Church of St John, built in 1890 by architects Austin and Paley, is now a warehouse. It is constructed of snecked sandstone with a slate roof and is oriented on a north-south axis. The building features a nave with low aisles, double transepts, and the base of an intended south-west tower, all designed in the Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style.
The gable facing the road is buttressed and has a set-back upper wall with a large four-light traceried window set within a recessed panel. On the east side, the first bay includes a gabled porch with a moulded arched doorway. The front wall of the porch extends sideways to create buttresses, and there is a circular side-wall window with flamboyant tracery. The aisles contain flat-headed two-light windows, while the nave has four large segmental-headed four-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. The twin-gabled transepts each feature a tall two-light window in the gable.
At the south-west corner, the base of the tower has diagonal buttresses, a moulded arched doorway, a band of blind arcading above it, and a pyramidal roof. The interior is mostly obscured by current contents but appears largely unaltered, except for damage to the high chancel arch caused by the removal of the Rood, which is now located in the Church of St. Nicholas on Church Street in Newchurch.
Local climate
Former Church of St John sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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