Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- lesser-flagstone-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Beachley Road, Tidenham
- OS grid reference
- ST 550 912
- Coordinates
- 51.61844, -2.65069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John is an Anglican parish church located on Beachley Road in Tidenham, built in 1833 by architects Foster and Okeley. It is a small, simple church constructed from squared and coursed limestone, topped with Welsh slate roofs featuring coped verges, kneelers, and plain terminal crosses. A small bell turret is situated at the west end. The church consists of a nave, transept, and sanctuary, with clamp buttresses that have a single offset.
The west front features a wheel window with wood tracery set in a stone surround above a simple pointed door that has a chamfered surround and a stopped drip. On either side of the nave, there are two lancet windows, while each transept has one lancet window. The north and south sides of the sanctuary also have one lancet each, and the east end displays a triple lancet window. All windows have simple stopped drips, although the east end has stepped drips with floriated stops.
Inside, there is a flat pointed barrel ceiling made of plaster at the quoined intersection, and some wall tablets can be found within the church. Overall, it is a minimal yet aesthetically pleasing building.
Local climate
Church of St John receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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