Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Church.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- tattered-chancel-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Elstar Lane, Great Horkesley, CO6 4ES
- OS grid reference
- TL 979 295
- Coordinates
- 51.92899, 0.87789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John, built around 1845, is a Commissioners Church made of gault brick. It features a nave, a smaller chancel, and an east porch, all topped with a gabled roof covered in peg tiles. The nave has compassed inset returns, roll-moulding at the eaves, and a parapet with roll and hollow brick coping. The east front is adorned with two lancet windows that have diamond panes and hoodmoulds made of gault brick. There are also blocked lancet doors at the south-east and north-east, each beneath a square gault hoodmould. The chancel has a ridged and gabled roof that is low pitched and slated, with a three-light Tudor window on the east side, and a lancet window on each side with pilastered returns.
Local climate
Church of St John sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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