Old St John's Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Former mission church.
Old St John's Buildings
- WRENN ID
- under-ember-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Former mission church
- Address
- Old St John's Buildings, Wimborne Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 089 950
- Coordinates
- 50.75476, -1.87462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old St John's Buildings, built in 1853 by G.E. Street, was originally the mission church of St John in Moordown. It has since been converted into a builder's merchants but still retains its recognizable features. The building has a single-pitched roof with a timber bellcote on the ridge, which was reconstructed around 1950 to match the original design. The roof tiles have been replaced with builders' samples. The walls are made of grey-buff brick and feature trefoiled lancets, either single or grouped, with whitewashed stone dressings. The west wall includes two trefoiled lancets and a sexfoil in a circle beneath a hoodmould, with an attached chimney to the north. The sexfoil contains a notably fine stained glass medallion depicting the beheading of St John, likely designed by Street himself.
The interior has been completely subdivided, although the canted principals of the roof can still be traced. The east end was later extended and is tile-hung. An attached school to the south has been demolished.
Local climate
Old St John's Buildings receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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