Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- fallen-cornice-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Fountains Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 350 934
- Coordinates
- 53.4336, -2.97875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a Catholic church built in 1885 by architects J. and B. Sinnott. It features rock-faced stone with ashlar bands and dressings, topped with a slate roof. The church consists of a single vessel nave and chancel, with aisles beneath lean-to roofs, transepts, and chapels; a northern chapel was added around 1920. The nave includes a five-light west window with Geometrical tracery above a canted baptistry that has a canted projecting centre. The aisle windows are three-light, while the clerestory windows are two-light, separated by flat buttresses between pairs of windows. The southwest porch has a pointed entrance and a stepped gable. The low south transept features a five-light window, and the taller north transept includes an organ loft. The east end showcases a seven-light window, with flanking chapels under lean-to roofs that have rose windows. Inside, there is a four-bay nave arcade supported by round columns, a waggon roof, and a west gallery. The chancel has a two-bay arcade with clustered columns and a wrought-iron reredos.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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