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

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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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