Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1966. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- roaming-passage-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, B1257, Bilsdale Midcable, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 573 945
- Coordinates
- 54.34358, -1.11922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church built between 1896 and 1898 by architect Temple Moore. It is constructed of pecked coursed sandstone with dressings and features a graduated Lakeland slate roof, complete with a stone ridge, copings, and a stone spire. The church is designed in the Decorated style and includes a west tower, a continuous nave and chancel, and a north aisle.
The square tower has three stages and is supported by stepped diagonal buttresses. It features a stepped and moulded plinth, a Y-tracery west window with a clock above, and small openings on the north and south sides, with Y-traceried bell openings above. The tower is topped with a short octagonal broach spire that has lucarnes and a vane. The north aisle is covered by a catslide roof, and the east window showcases cusped reticulated tracery.
At the entrance, twin bootscrapers flank four steps leading to the door. Inside, the church has a plastered interior with stone dressings. The arches of the four-bay aisle are moulded and chamfered, transitioning into diagonal chamfered piers. The east bay and the eastward extension are panelled off as a vestry. A tall, pointed tower arch leads into the nave, which features a ribbed barrel roof, while the tower has a coffered roof. The church contains good, apparently original woodwork, including benches, a pulpit, choir seating, and desks. The chancel and sanctuary have chequered stone paving, and there is a moulded piscina in the south wall. A carved vestry door displays a monogram under a long Caernarvon arch.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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