Church of St John Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St John Evangelist

WRENN ID
muted-belfry-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1984
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Church of St John Evangelist, Leconfield Street, Cleator Moor
OS grid reference
NY 014 153
Coordinates
54.52348, -3.52369
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St John Evangelist is a parish church built in 1872 by architects Cory and Ferguson from Carlisle, with restoration completed in 1900. It is constructed from snecked sandstone blocks, featuring quoins and buttresses, and has a chamfered plinth at the chancel. The church has graduated slate roofs with stone copings and kneelers, and includes a chapel outshut on either side of the chancel. Designed in the Romanesque style, it consists of a west tower, a nave with aisles, and a chancel.

The three-stage tower has paired belfry openings beneath an arch that features decorative trellis work in the spandrels, with blind recesses on either side that are similarly decorated. A stair turret projects from the south side of the tower at the junction with the nave, which has an external door. The main entrance on the north side of the nave features four semicircular orders, with the three outer orders being decoratively carved and supported by waterleaf capitals on en-delit shafts. Each bay of the nave has a single aisle and clerestory window, while the chancel has three stepped windows at the east end. All windows are round-headed and set under hoodmoulds.

Inside, the church has a whitewashed brick interior. The nave arcade consists of four bays with semicircular arches supported by waterleaf capitals on quatrefoil piers. The aisles feature quadrant vaults, while the main vessel has a pointed barrel vault, both with transverse arches. The chancel is topped with an intersecting rib vault. To the left of the chancel arch in the nave is a polygonal carved wood pulpit, with a matching vicar's stall to the right. In the baptistry located on the ground floor of the tower, there is a carved stone font supported by five marble shafts.

Local climate

Church of St John Evangelist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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