Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- fading-terrace-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Coley Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 124 269
- Coordinates
- 53.73859, -1.81231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John, built in 1816 by William Bradley from Halifax, is a Grade II listed church that underwent restoration and alterations by Hodgson Fowler around 1900. It features hammer-dressed stone ashlar dressings and is designed in the Gothic revival style. The church has a wide nave consisting of five bays, a single bay chancel, and a west tower. The structure includes various types of buttresses, with octagonal ones on the tower, diagonal ones at the ends, and angled ones at the nave. The building is topped with an embattled parapet.
The nave windows are characterized by deep transoms at gallery level, creating low three-light windows with trefoil heads, and above them are three-light pointed windows with intersecting tracery. The tower consists of three tall stages, featuring a deeply set west doorway and belfry openings that echo the design of the nave windows. The east window has three lights with perpendicular tracery, flanked by two-light windows with 'Y' tracery.
Inside, the church has a five-bay wide nave with aisles, supported by tall slender octagonal fluted columns with moulded capitals and pointed arches forming the arcades. The chancel boasts a five-panelled slightly canted roof. A west gallery displays a large Royal Coat of Arms set within an arch-headed recess, along with two other Royal Coats, the latest dated 1820 for George III. Several wall monuments from the earlier church remain, including one in stone dated 1727 for the Sharpes of Hipperholme and another in marble dated 1765 for the Simpsons of Hipperholme, which features a long epitaph. The font is similar to that of St Anne's in Southowram.
Local climate
Church of St John sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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