Parish Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. A C19 Church.

Parish Church of St John

WRENN ID
turning-gargoyle-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Leeds
Constituency
Leeds North East MP: Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1976
Type
Church
Address
Parish Church of St John, Wetherby Road, LS8 2LE
OS grid reference
SE 337 372
Coordinates
53.83049, -1.4894
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St John is an Anglican church built between 1824 and 1826, with the chancel enlarged in 1885. Designed by Thomas Taylor, it is in the Gothic Revival style and constructed of ashlar with slate roofs. The church is small and features large plain lancet windows, a three-stage tower with a stone broach spire that has lucarnes, a moulded parapet, and flat buttresses. The layout includes a nave and aisles combined, a chancel, transepts, a south porch, and a west tower. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Parish Church of St John 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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