Church of St. John the Evangelist is a Grade II* listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St. John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- western-basalt-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St. John the Evangelist, Church Road, Woodley
- OS grid reference
- SU 768 736
- Coordinates
- 51.457, -0.89544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. John the Evangelist is a parish church built in 1873 by H. Woodyer. It is constructed from flint with Bath stone dressings and features a tiled gabled roof. The church has a four-bay nave, a chancel, a north aisle, and a south porch located in the westernmost bay of the nave, topped with a large two-tier stone bellcote.
The windows include diamond leaded glass, a lancet window in the north aisle, a three-light window in the nave, and two-light stained glass in the chancel, all designed with plate tracery.
Inside, the church features a north arcade supported by circular columns with moulded capitals, a tall stone tripartite chancel screen with moulded capitals on slim columns, and a delicate low wrought iron screen. There is a stone octagonal pulpit with a base of moulded arches and colonnettes, as well as a stone font with a similar base. The roof is supported by arched braced collar roof trusses on corbel brackets, with side purlins, king posts, and wind braces, and the trusses in the chancel are cusped.
Local climate
Church of St. John the Evangelist sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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