Parish Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Church.
Parish Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- second-remnant-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St John the Evangelist, East Holme
- OS grid reference
- SY 899 859
- Coordinates
- 50.67322, -2.14399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St John the Evangelist is a small church built between 1865 and 1866, designed by architect J Hicks. It features ironstone walls and stone slate roofs with coped gables, showcasing the Gothic Revival style. The church includes a nave, a chancel with a north vestry, and a south porch. A small west bell turret has a trefoil arch beneath a stone gable. The nave and chancel have plain lancet windows, while the east window has triple lancets. The west window features double lancets with a quatrefoil above. Inside, the walls are plastered and adorned with contemporary mural paintings. Notable features include well-carved capitals on the chancel arch, corbels, and cornices in the nave and chancel roofs. The chancel and west windows have rere-arches with Purbeck marble shafts and carved caps. Both the nave and chancel have arch-braced roofs. Most fittings are contemporary, except for a 17th-century brass tablet from the former Priory Church. The churchyard contains three medieval stone coffin lids that are somewhat eroded. This church is a good example of a small 19th-century church. Additionally, the chancel arch from the former Priory Church was re-erected in St John's Chapel, Creech-Steeple Parish.
Local climate
Parish Church of St John the Evangelist receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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