Church of St John is a Grade II* listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. A C13 Church.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- brooding-marble-thyme
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Waberthwaite, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- SD 100 951
- Coordinates
- 54.34363, -3.38554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John is a parish church with foundations likely dating back to the 13th century, featuring later additions and alterations. It is constructed of wet-dashed rubble and has a graduated slate roof with stone copings. A gabled bellcote was added at the west end in 1796. The church has a single-cell plan and includes a gabled south porch, which was rebuilt in 1825 and contains internal stone benches and a plank inner door. The windows are multi-light, stone-mullioned, and date from various periods. The interior was flagged, pewed, and ceiled in 1807. An octagonal wooden pulpit, featuring carved decoration and an inscription, reads: "THE GIFT OF ABRAHAM CHAMBERS GENT. VAE MIHI SI NON VERUM PRAEDICO S R 1630" (with a possible error in the date). At the west end, there is a monolithic stone font, likely medieval, which is square in plan and rests on a chamfered plinth with stop-chamfered corners. Above the door, there is a panel displaying the coat-of-arms of George III, dated 1778.
Local climate
Church of St John sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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