Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- nether-gargoyle-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Runcorn and Helsby MP: Sarah Pochin (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Church Lane, Guilden Sutton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 448 681
- Coordinates
- 53.20784, -2.82659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist, built in 1815, features some work from the 16th century. It is constructed of English garden wall bond orange brick, with visible lines of vertical timbers and a wall plate in the nave. The roof is made of Welsh slate. The church has a five-bay nave and chancel that are in one range, along with a south porch and an octagonal louvred bellcote. A dentil brick cornice adorns the structure, and the windows of both the nave and chancel are simple, featuring semi-circular brick heads. The gabled porch has a pair of half-glazed doors, while the east window is lancet-shaped with two wooden mullions.
Inside, the church is very plain, with a raised chancel and a wooden chancel screen. The interior features partly exposed kingpost trusses with diagonal braces, all heavily cusped. There is a circular stone front dated 1635 and a doorway with twisted balusters dated 1698. A painted memorial plaque to the Whitehead family is likely the work of Randle Holme III.
The former chancel collapsed in 1802, and it is reported that Sir J T Stanley of Alderley rebuilt the church by 1810 when he sold the living, as noted in Ormerod's "History of Cheshire" from 1819.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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