Church of St. John the Evangelist is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 2004. Church.
Church of St. John the Evangelist
- WRENN ID
- floating-hearth-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 2004
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St. John the Evangelist, Penllyn, Cowbridge
- OS grid reference
- SS 973 760
- Coordinates
- 51.47445, -3.47921
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St. John the Evangelist is a small single-cell church built from roughly coursed and squared local limestone rubble, featuring Bath stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof. It has diagonal buttresses and is designed in the Decorated style. The church includes a west bellcote, an integral chancel, a south porch, and a north organ chamber.
On the south wall, there are three windows and a steeply gabled porch situated between the first and second windows from the left. The porch has a pointed arch with a dripmould, gable coping, and an apex cross. The two-light windows are set in square-headed recesses and feature reticulated tracery with dripmoulds above. The east gable wall displays a 3-light window with cusped heads and quatrefoils, while the west wall has a 2-light window that is flush with the wall. The north wall is blind. Both gables are coped, with a small bellcote featuring a cross and bell on the west gable and a cross on the east gable.
Inside, the church has a plain but very unaltered appearance, with plastered and painted walls and a low-pitched waggon roof. The 2-centred arch in the north wall leading to the organ chamber is likely an alteration. Most furnishings are contemporary, with the exception of the font, which dates to 1682, the reredos from 1903, and the later panelling surrounding it.
Local climate
Church of St. John the Evangelist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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