Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1985. Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- hushed-balcony-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Stoke Row
- OS grid reference
- SU 678 840
- Coordinates
- 51.55093, -1.02346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist, built around 1846 by R.C. Hussey, is a church located in Stoke Row. It features knapped flint with stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof, while the tower has wood shingles. The church is designed in the Early English lancet style and consists of a four-bay nave with a north tower. The entrance has a central double plank door with a two-centred arch and a hood-mould, accompanied by a triple lancet window above. Each bay is separated by stepped buttresses, and the tower, positioned to the left of the centre, has three stages. The first stage contains a plank door with a shouldered surround, the second stage features a lancet window with a clock face above it, and the octagonal third stage has louvred lancets on its principal faces topped by an octagonal pyramidal roof with a wind-vane. The east window consists of two lancets with a cartwheel tracery rose window above.
Inside, there is a reredos with a continuous hood-mould over six lancet arches, all adorned with slate panels painted with texts, except for the lancet windows on either side of the centre, which have early 20th-century stained glass, and the rose window above, which has 19th-century stained glass. The church also features a mid-19th-century quatrefoil arcade altar rail, mid-19th-century pews and pulpit, and a mid-19th-century stone font with an octagonal base and chamfered sides. The roof is constructed with coupled rafters and arch bracing.
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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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