Church of St John is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1978. Church.
Church of St John
- WRENN ID
- solemn-corridor-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1978
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John, Back Lane, Acaster Selby
- OS grid reference
- SE 574 409
- Coordinates
- 53.86137, -1.12817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John is a mid-19th century church located on Back Lane in Acaster Selby. It is built from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The church has a four-bay nave with a south porch and a two-bay chancel that includes a north-east vestry, all designed in the Gothic Revival style.
The south porch features a double-chamfered, pointed-arched opening with a hood-mould. There is a plank door with a moulded surround beneath a hood-mould that has headstops. The chancel includes a priest's door on the south side, which is a pointed plank door with a chamfered architrave and a hood-mould. The windows are mainly two-light with Decorated tracery and hood-moulds, while the east end has a three-light window. The gables are topped with ashlar coping, and there is a bellcote on the west gable. The roof is set at two levels.
Inside, the church has a plain interior that features some late 19th-century stained glass, including a window with glass by Mayer and Lo of Munich and London, as well as a 19th-century octagonal font.
Local climate
Church of St John sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings