Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. Church.
Church of St John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-porch-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Berrygate Lane, Sharow, HG4 5BT
- OS grid reference
- SE 327 720
- Coordinates
- 54.14361, -1.49989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Evangelist, built in 1825 with a chancel added in 1874, is located on Berrygate Lane in Sharow, North Yorkshire. The nave and tower were designed by civil engineer George Knowles. The church is constructed of ashlar stone and features a grey slate roof. It has a wide three-bay nave with a tower at the west end and a south porch. The chancel consists of two bays, with a chapel on the south side and an organ and vestry on the north side, all designed in the Perpendicular style.
The tower has four stages, featuring a trefoil-headed window on the third stage and a three-light trefoil-headed belfry window, both adorned with flat hood-moulds. It is supported by corner buttresses and topped with an embattled parapet. The nave has three bays with stepped buttresses and an embattled parapet, and it includes three-light Perpendicular windows. One window is partly obscured by a small gabled porch that has corner buttresses, a double-chamfered arch, and a double door with wide boards and strap hinges. The chancel features two bays with two-light early Gothic-style windows, while the east window is a three-light Perpendicular design.
Inside, the nave boasts a fine gold-embossed panelled timber roof. The chancel has a tiled floor and contemporary choir stalls. A memorial to George Knowles, who died in 1853 and designed the nave and tower, is located on the south side of the nave. This memorial is made of marble and features a relief carving of a broken bridge and a weeping willow tree, created by T Milne of London. The east window, originally from the nave and moved to the chancel when it was added, was painted by George Hedgland, who also painted the west window of Norwich Cathedral. A printed sheet detailing the church's history, published around 1960, is held in the National Monuments Record.
Local climate
Church of St John the Evangelist receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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