Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1988. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- young-casement-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Green Lane, Wall
- OS grid reference
- SK 098 066
- Coordinates
- 52.65774, -1.85536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John is a parish church built in 1839 by Scott and Moffat. It is constructed from pale yellow chisel-finished sandstone and features tiled roofs with corbelled eaves and verge parapets. The church consists of a west steeple, nave, and chancel.
The steeple is a square tower with approximately three stages, standing on a plinth and supported by two-stage diagonal buttresses. The last stage is chamfered to create an octagonal base for the short spire. It has a single stage of small lucarnes and a small slit trefoil-headed window above the pointed west door.
The nave, which is four bays long and built on a plinth, is divided by two-stage buttresses and has two-light, square-headed trefoil-light windows in each bay. The chancel is lower than the nave and has similar details, consisting of one short bay with a three-light, labelled pointed window in the Perpendicular style featuring panel tracery.
Inside, the nave has a plain-finished plastered interior with a single hammer beam and arch-braced roof, double purlins, and exposed rafters. There is a narrow, pointed chancel arch. Notable interior features include a reading desk with fretted brasswork and an octagonal stone font on a stand. The church is attractively situated at the top of a rise, making it a prominent feature in the landscape.
Local climate
Church of St John receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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