Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. A Victorian Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- night-casement-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1955
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Church Lane, Lacey Green
- OS grid reference
- SU 824 998
- Coordinates
- 51.69153, -0.80791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church that was previously a chapel of ease. The nave was built between 1822 and 1825 by J. Chadley, and the chancel was added in 1871 by J. P. Seddon. The church features flint construction with Denner Hill stone quoins and a chamfered plinth, along with chamfered brick window surrounds and cogged brick eaves. The roof was re-tiled in 1980. The building has a cruciform nave and a chancel with a canted east end and a small organ chamber to the north.
At the west end of the nave, there is a gabled porch with a rendered four-centred arch and a later brick chimney to the right. The north and south sides have three bays of rectangular three-light transomed windows, with the center bays projecting and featuring rendered Tudor hood-moulds over the windows and rendered crosses in the gables. There are blind panels with four-centred arches on the west sides of the projections, and the north projection has a blocked four-centred doorway to the east. A later 19th-century bell-cote is situated between the nave and chancel, along with a buttress on the south side.
The chancel has a flush brick band course, two-light traceried stone windows, and an arched door to the south. Inside, the nave is plastered and colourwashed, featuring wide four-centred arches to the central projections. The roof has slender hammer beam trusses with central four-centred arches and turned pendants. There is a west gallery with a panelled front supported on cast iron quatrefoil shafts. The central north window contains armorial glass commemorating the original donors. The chancel is lined with yellow brick and has patterned red brick dressings and diapers, a steeply pointed chancel arch, and another arch leading to the organ chamber. The chancel also features a painted wooden vault and stained glass from 1905.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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