Chapel of St John is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. Chapel.
Chapel of St John
- WRENN ID
- night-tallow-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St John, Ashby Road, Coleorton, LE67 8FD
- OS grid reference
- SK 397 169
- Coordinates
- 52.74857, -1.41186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St John is a small chapel built between 1856 and 1857. It is constructed of granite rubble with randomly coursed stonework, featuring ashlar dressings and a plain tiled roof. The chapel has coped gables, a cross finial at the east end, and a bell cote at the west. It includes two lancet windows with cusped trefoiled heads and polychrome voussoirs. The west door is adorned with a hood-mould that has foliate capitals, and there is a three-light window on the east side. Inside, the walls are decorated with a red sandstone band and polychrome voussoirs around the windows.
The cornerstone for the chapel was laid on 21 October 1856, and it was consecrated on 27 August 1857, as reported by the Leicester Journal. It is believed that Sir George Howland Beaumont of Coleorton Hall and his steward Peter Heward were responsible for the chapel's design.
Local climate
Chapel of St John sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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