Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- quiet-loft-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Liscard Road, CH44 9AE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 314 915
- Coordinates
- 53.41618, -3.03355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John is a church built between 1832 and 1833 by H. Edwards, with an interior remodelled in 1892. It is constructed of stucco with stone dressings and features a stone facade. The facade includes a Doric entablature and a panelled parapet, with angle pilasters and a tetrastyle Doric portico. The windows have architraves with jambs that slope inwards, friezes, and consoled pediments, and they are fitted with small-paned glazing. The entrance is framed by an architrave, frieze, and consoled pediment, and it has an overlight and paired two-panel doors. The sides of the church have seven bays, with windows similar to those on the facade but without consoles. The projecting stone western bays, which are actually the north side, feature paired flat pilasters flanking the entrances. The rear of the church has a projecting pedimented chancel and low projecting bays on either side. The chancel contains a blind tripartite window with pilasters and an entablature adorned with wreaths.
Inside, the church is plain, featuring an elliptical chancel arch. Late 19th-century partitions create an organ chamber and a lady chapel flanking the choir in front of the arch. The sanctuary has a tripartite reredos that matches the exterior, complete with a painting and stencilling above. The nave displays paintings of apostles applied to the walls. An elliptical alabaster font rests on three marble steps and features angel supporters, cherubs' heads, and a gadroon edge. A 20th-century wooden font cover, made in Africa, includes a panel from the lady chapel reredos. The square timber pulpit is originally part of a two-decker pulpit. The vestry contains original cupboards with angle pilasters and entablatures.
Local climate
Church of St John 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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