Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. Church. 6 related planning applications.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- solitary-rafter-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Church Bank Lane, Hebden Royd
- OS grid reference
- SE 000 232
- Coordinates
- 53.70532, -2.00075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John is a church that was rebuilt in 1839, replacing an earlier church of which there is no evidence. It features dressed stone and a slate roof, with a west tower, nave, and shallow chancel designed in the lancet style. The three-stage embattled tower has angle buttresses that rise to form pinnacles, and all windows are tall lancets with deeply double chamfered surrounds and pointed arches. The tower has windows on its west face only, with a doorway set in the north face. The second stage of the tower includes a clock on the north and south faces, while the third stage serves as the belfry. The nave is aisless and consists of four bays, each with tall windows supported by shallow buttresses, and features a corbel table. The chancel is shallow and single-bayed, with a tall east window that has panelled tracery, and angle buttresses with outshuts on either side that have lean-to roofs and pointed arched doorways.
Inside, the church has a single vessel with a shallow chancel set within a pointed arch. There is a gallery at the west end supported by clustered iron colonnettes, featuring a brattished rail with a panelled front and arched heads. The roof is flat with moulded ribs. A memorial to Rev. Thomas Crowther, the original minister who served "38 years in this Parish," is dated 1859.
Local climate
Church of St John sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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