Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1986. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- carved-copper-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Hollington, Checkley, ST10 4HH
- OS grid reference
- SK 059 388
- Coordinates
- 52.94674, -1.91308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John is a chapel of ease built in 1859-61, designed by G.E. Street. Constructed from rough-faced, random coursed Hollington sandstone, it features steeply pitched tiled roofs with a crested ridge, verge parapets, and a bellcote to the west end. The church comprises a nave, a north porch, and an apse.
The nave has low walls with diagonal buttresses at the corners and a string course at window sill level. A large, three-stage buttress runs along the west face to the bellcote. The nave's east side features trefoil-headed lancet windows, while the west side, near the north porch, has quatrefoil windows. The north porch has very low eaves, which are lower on the west side than the east, and a pointed arch entrance. The apse is similarly roofed but has higher eaves than the nave. It has two-light, plate tracery, trefoil-headed windows with quatrefoils above, on its sides. The three-light east window is similarly designed, with a gablet above, and is integrated into the curve of the apse.
Local climate
Church of St John receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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