Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- buried-shingle-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North East MP: Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Harrogate Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 307 393
- Coordinates
- 53.84911, -1.53473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist is an Anglican church located on Harrogate Road in Moor Allerton, built in 1853 and enlarged in 1889 by architect Joseph Thompson. It is constructed from coursed squared gritstone and features a grey slate roof. The church has a plan that includes a 3-bay nave, a 2-bay chancel, and a 3-stage west tower topped with a broach spire. The 1889 additions include transepts, a vestry, and an organ chamber, all designed in the Gothic Revival style.
The exterior showcases lancet windows and stepped buttresses on the nave, with 2-light windows in the chancel and a very plain 5-light window at the east end, which includes ashlar panels and a hoodmould. The transept windows are 3-light, while the tower features a south door in a Gothic arch with a hoodmould and head stops, along with quatrefoil windows on the second stage, paired belfry windows, and lucarne windows in the spire. Additional details include stepped buttresses, moulded strings, gable copings, and cross finials.
Inside, the church has wide arches leading to the transepts and chancel, with short attached columns that have foliate caps. The ceiling panels are painted, and the roof features scissor-brace trusses. Notable interior elements include a quatrefoil marble font and a brass eagle lectern dated 1889. The church is one of 13 churches and 10 chapels built in Leeds between 1840 and 1853, with the land donated by Sir Thomas Beckett.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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