Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1989. Church.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- pale-steeple-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1989
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, B6257, Firbank, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 627 935
- Coordinates
- 54.33638, -2.57373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John is a church built in 1842, attributed to George Webster. It is constructed of stone rubble with slobbered mortar and features a slate roof. The church has a four-bay nave, a chancel apse, and a west bell turret. The top cornice and coped gables have kneelers and finials on the east side. There is a weathered buttress towards the west end and diagonal buttresses. The apse contains three stepped lancets, while the west end features a pointed entrance with a datestone above that reads "AD/1841". The small corbelled square bell turret has a string course and a projecting embattled parapet, with round-headed louvred bell openings.
Inside, the church has flat ceilings, with the apse ceiling adorned with a cornice and a rose. The chancel arch has canted jambs with caps. There are boards displaying the Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Commandments. A roll moulding surrounds the east window, and there is a west gallery above the vestry and stair. The altar rail is supported by cast iron bracketed supports.
Local climate
Church of St John sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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