Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- old-flagstone-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Green Balk Lane, Kirkburton
- OS grid reference
- SE 199 150
- Coordinates
- 53.632, -1.69928
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a Gothic Revival church built in the Early English style between 1866 and 1868 by T. H. and F. Healey of Bradford, with a tower added in 1876. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a pitched slate roof. The church has a 4-bay buttressed nave with a lean-to south aisle and a 2-bay chancel that includes squat buttresses with offsets. There is a lean-to vestry and organ chamber on the south wall of the chancel.
The large southwest tower is three tiers high and includes a south doorway, paired tiny lights, and a clock face on the second tier. The bell chamber openings are paired and louvred, with a central colonnette. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet and mock machicolation. The east window is a 4-light design with plate tracery, featuring two trefoils and one cinquefoil in the head. The chancel sides have 8-foiled windows, while the nave and aisle windows consist of 2, 3, and 4 lights, most with plate tracery, including several with trefoils, one with a quatrefoil, and one with a cinquefoil. The west wall has two lancets with a 6-foil in the apex.
Inside, there is a 4-bay south arcade with massive arches on squat, seemingly undersized columns. The chancel is panelled in oak and features a reredos, a well-carved oak chancel screen, and a carved stone font. Recent alterations include partitioning at the west end of the nave. The roof is supported by arched braced hammer-beam trusses with turned king posts. The tower previously had a squat, square, slated spire.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 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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