Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1999. Church.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- second-foundation-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Rufford Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 374 200
- Coordinates
- 53.67341, -2.94779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John, located on Rufford Road in Crossens, was built between 1883 and 1885 by JW Connon of Leeds. It is constructed from rock-faced yellow sandstone with red sandstone dressings and features slate roofs with red ridge tiles. The church is designed in the Gothic style and has a plan that includes a nave with a north-west tower, a south-west porch, coupled north and south transepts, and a polygonal apse.
The exterior of the tower is narrow and features angle buttresses, a polygonal vice up to half height, and a slightly set-back belfry stage with coupled 2-light windows that have bar tracery and stone louvres. It is topped with a corbel table and an embattled parapet. The west gable of the nave showcases coupled 2-centred arched windows with geometric tracery. The two-storey gabled porch has a 2-centred arched doorway that is chamfered in two orders, along with a 2-light mullioned window above. The north and south walls of the nave are adorned with windows featuring three trefoil lights, while the coupled gables of the transepts have tall plate-traceried three-light windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church of St John sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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