Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. A Medieval Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- grim-casement-rowan
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Church Road, Little Wilbraham
- OS grid reference
- TL 545 586
- Coordinates
- 52.20397, 0.26043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church with an early 13th-century chancel, a late 13th-century nave, and a north aisle, along with a west tower that was added to the west bay of the nave. The south wall of the nave is older, likely from the 11th or 12th century, featuring a round-headed single light window. The church underwent significant restoration in the 19th century. It is primarily constructed of clunch, rendered, with limestone dressings at the quoins.
The west tower is embattled and consists of three stages, with restored windows and openings for the bell chamber. The two windows in the south wall of the nave are 19th-century restorations of late 14th or early 15th-century designs. The older window from the late 11th or 12th century has a splayed sill and a scalloped pattern in the arch's moulding. The south wall of the chancel was rebuilt in 1850 and is now cased in flint, with one surviving lancet window featuring a deep splay in the north wall. The north aisle has had its roof raised and the windows restored in an Early English style during the 19th century.
Inside, the west tower arch and the two arches leading to the side walls of the tower date back to the 13th century, featuring two-centred arches with two chamfered orders and inner arches on half-octagonal attached shafts. The north arcade consists of three bays with similar two-centred arches. There is a squint opening between the north aisle and the chancel, as well as a staircase opening for the rood loft south of the chancel arch. The nave and north aisle still have some original stone corbels that supported the jack posts of the original roof. The font, dating from the 15th century, is octagonal with traceried panels on the sides and foliate bosses on the soffit, supported by an octagonal stem.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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