Parish Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. Church.

Parish Church of St John the Evangelist

WRENN ID
carved-stronghold-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1966
Type
Church
Address
Parish Church of St John the Evangelist, Blunham Road, Moggerhanger
OS grid reference
TL 142 493
Coordinates
52.13051, -0.33246
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St John the Evangelist was built between 1860 and 1861 by architect William Slater as a memorial for the widow of the Rev Edward Henry Dawkins of Mogerhanger House. The church is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with bands of ironstone and features ashlar dressings. It has clay tile roofs without coping or parapets.

The building is designed in an Early English style and includes a nave, north and south aisles, a north vestry, a chancel tower, a polygonal apse, and a stair turret at the northeast corner of the tower. Most windows are uncusped trefoiled lights, and most doors are pointed arched. The openings feature alternating voussoirs of ironstone and limestone. The nave has three-bay arcades on both sides, with foliate capitals and polychrome banding on the pointed arches.

The west elevation has a central door with three windows above, flanked by a single light in each aisle. The south aisle features three paired windows and a south door, while the north aisle, which extends to form the vestry, has four paired windows and a vestry door. The tower includes lights on each side of the bell-stage, a single light and door on the south elevation of the bottom stage, and a pyramidal roof. The apse has a single light on each of its five sides, and the stair turret is polygonal with a Caernarvon arched doorway, lit by several small single lights.

Inside, there is an ornate circular font supported by five pillars, featuring a carved scene of Christ receiving children. Most memorials within the church are represented in stained glass, dedicated to various members of the Dawkins and Thornton families.

Local climate

Parish Church of St John the Evangelist sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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