Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-gable-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Carrhill Road, Mossley
- OS grid reference
- SD 976 029
- Coordinates
- 53.52362, -2.03744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a church built between 1878 and 1879 by architects Wild and Collins. It features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The structure includes a nave and chancel under one roof, a south aisle, a south-west tower, a south vestry, and a north porch. The nave has six bays and the chancel has two bays, separated on the north side by a taller buttress. The windows in the nave and aisle are two-light with geometrical tracery, positioned between weathered buttresses. There is a cusped circular clerestory window and a five-light east window with geometrical tracery. The vestry has twin gables and the tower is three-stage, featuring an east door, angled weathered buttresses, two lancet belfry openings, and a broach spire. Inside, the aisle has been partitioned off to create a chapel. The nave arcade has chamfered arches on circular columns with moulded bases and capitals, and there are arch-braced roof trusses. A polygonal stone font and stained glass are also present.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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