Church of Saint John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1966. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of Saint John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- heavy-flint-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint John the Baptist, Halifax Road, OL16 2RQ
- OS grid reference
- SD 913 152
- Coordinates
- 53.63379, -2.13191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint John the Baptist is a church of 1834, designed by Lewis Vulliamy. It was constructed with ashlar and has a slate roof. The church comprises a nave, a small chancel with an east vestry, and a west entrance with side porches leading to galleries.
The nave has eight bays, featuring a weathered plinth, continuous sill mould, continuous hood mould, a parapet with gablets, and weathered corner buttresses. Each bay has a lancet window. The gabled west elevation has a projecting central portion with three lancet windows, a central entrance, lean-to side porches, octagonal pinnacles, a gabled bellcote with clock faces, lancet openings, and a central finial. The single-bay chancel has a four-light east window and a double-gabled vestry, both being roofed continuously with the nave.
Inside, the nave is wide and has galleries supported by cast iron columns, with two tiers of galleries to the west. A large chancel arch is surmounted by a painted angelic choir. Notable interior features include a choir screen, pulpit, lectern, poppyhead pews, choir stalls, a hooded priest’s chair with a misericord, a gallery parapet, and semi-ceiled king-post roof trusses with cusped arcading. The church was built with a Commissioners' grant.
Local climate
Church of Saint John the Baptist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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