Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St John

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Forest of Dean
Constituency
Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1983
Type
Church
Address
Church of St John, Boxbush Road, Coleford, GL16 8DN
OS grid reference
SO 573 107
Coordinates
51.79368, -2.61977
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. John is a large parish church built in 1880 by F.S. Waller, with the chancel and transepts added in 1885 by S. Gambier-Parry. It features rock face rubble stone brought to courses with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof with double gables on both transepts. The church is designed in the shape of a Latin cross with an apsed east end. The nave has four bays and tall two-light windows with plate tracery, separated by buttresses with drafted margins. There are angle buttresses on the transepts and a gabled porch at the north-west end. The west end showcases two three-light windows with geometrical tracery.

Inside, the church has a complex steep timber strutted collar roof supported by stone corbels, featuring wind bracing and elaborately decorated timber work above the chancel. An oak reredos, carved as a memorial for the 1914-18 War by Sir Charles Nicholson, is present, along with a fine 20th-century oak lectern, pulpit, and a screen in the north transept. The east window has stained glass from 1958 by Francis Stephens, and there is a carved stone chancel screen and a stone piscina to the right of the reredos.

Local climate

Church of St John receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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