Church of Saint Mary and Saint John is a Grade II listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Church.
Church of Saint Mary and Saint John
- WRENN ID
- riven-lantern-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St. Helens
- Constituency
- St Helens North MP: David Baines (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Mary and Saint John, Crow Lane East
- OS grid reference
- SJ 581 956
- Coordinates
- 53.45609, -2.63222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Mary and Saint John is a Catholic church built in 1864, with a spire added in 1880, designed by G. Blount. It features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The building includes a nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, a northwest steeple, and a chancel flanked by gabled chapels.
The tower has setback buttresses and lancet windows, along with paired lancet bell openings and a splayed spire. The west end features a pointed entrance and a spherical triangle window. The six-bay nave has paired lancet windows in the aisles and triple lancet windows in the clerestory. There is one squat buttress on the north side, with confessionals and a vestry located to the south. The canted chancel is supported by clasping buttresses and has a cornice adorned with animal heads, along with windows of two lights.
Inside, there are arches connecting the chapels and chancel to the aisles, supported by corbels in the form of busts, including those of Saints Mary and John, as well as a contemporary bishop and pope. The reredoses in the chapels remain, although the one in the chancel has been removed.
Local climate
Church of Saint Mary and Saint John sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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