Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1988. Church.

Church of St John the Evangelist

WRENN ID
graven-solder-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnsley
Constituency
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1988
Type
Church
Address
Church of St John the Evangelist, Haigh Lane, Penistone
OS grid reference
SE 259 052
Coordinates
53.54307, -1.60939
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St John the Evangelist, built in 1869 by W. H. Crossland, is a church located on Haigh Lane in Hoyland Swaine. It is constructed from tooled squared stone and features a slate roof. The building includes a west tower, a three-bay nave with a south porch, and a lean-to north aisle. The chancel has two bays and a north vestry. The church is designed in the Gothic revival style, specifically in the Decorated style.

The west tower is three stages high and has reducing angle buttresses. It features a three-light west window and large paired openings in the bell chamber that are louvred and have deep, hollow-chamfered reveals. The tower is adorned with crocketed corner pinnacles and has a stair tower on the south side. The nave has two-light windows, with paired windows in the second bay that have traceried heads. The chancel windows are similar but shorter, and there is a three-light east window. The north aisle windows are square-headed and consist of two lights.

Inside, the church has a three-bay arcade to the north supported by short octagonal piers, except for the leftmost pier, which is round. The nave and chancel feature a wagon roof with scissor bracing at the apex of the nave.

Local climate

Church of St John the Evangelist receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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