Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. Parish church.

Church of St John the Evangelist

WRENN ID
woven-parapet-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 January 1986
Type
Parish church
Address
Church of St John the Evangelist, Hambleden
OS grid reference
SU 796 902
Coordinates
51.60502, -0.85106
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church built in 1849 by J.P. Harrison, with the south aisle added in 1872, likely by Woodyer. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and has tiled roofs. The church features a nave, a north porch, a south aisle, a chancel, and a south vestry, with offset buttresses and traceried windows in the Decorated style. The nave includes two-light windows, one on the west and one on the north. The north door is arched and set in a gabled porch, which has a chamfered arch and two small trefoil-headed lights on each side. The south aisle has three very steep cross gables, each with a two-light window. The vestry contains a Caernarvon arch and a small ogee window. The chancel has a two-light window on the north and a three-light window on the east.

Inside, there is a double chamfered south arcade supported by cylindrical piers with moulded caps, a large chancel arch with a waved chamfer on moulded corbels, and an ogee piscina. The chancel features traceried wood panelling. The east window, designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and made by Hardman, depicts scenes of the Passion, while three other windows are by Kempe.

Local climate

Church of St John the Evangelist sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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