Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1981. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- western-column-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Dulwich and West Norwood MP: Helen Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Wiltshire Road Sw9, SW9 7NE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 314 759
- Coordinates
- 51.46752, -0.10923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist was built between 1852 and 1853 by Benjamin Ferrey. It is constructed from Kentish ragstone rubble with Bath stone dressings and is designed in the Perpendicular style. The church features a nave with a clerestory and a lower chancel. The nave aisles extend to become chancel aisles but do not reach the east end. The body of the church has plain parapets, while the tall west tower, which has four stages, is topped with a battlemented parapet featuring stone chequerwork. This tower includes angle turrets, paired bell-openings, and a clock below. Inside, the plain plastered interior has a four-bay nave supported by tall octagonal arcade piers. It retains its original pews, and there is a west gallery and an organ located in the tower behind. The east end of the chancel is walled off, leaving only a short sanctuary. Additionally, there are some fragments of heraldic glass in the south aisle, and the north transept was added in 1876.
Local climate
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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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