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. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- bitter-jade-owl
- 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, High Street, SK14 2PU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 958 953
- Coordinates
- 53.45487, -2.06435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed church built between 1849 and 1850 for the Church Commissioners by E.H. Shellard, with the tower added in 1878. It is constructed from snecked stone and features a graduated slate roof. The church consists of a nave, aisles, chancel, and a west tower. The aisles are four bays long, and the chancel has two bays. Each bay of the aisles has a weathered buttress, a stone plinth, and a two-light window with bar tracery. There is a porch in the first bay. The chancel has diagonal buttresses and a three-light east window. The tower is three stages high and includes an octagonal corner stair turret, which is slightly later in date and topped by a small spire. The tower also features a stone plinth, diagonal buttresses, lancet openings, a clock, two-light belfry openings, and a castellated parapet with gargoyles.
Inside, the church has octagonal columns for the nave arcade with moulded bases and capitals. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, and the roof features arch-braced trusses with a wagon roof in the chancel. The royal coat of arms is displayed above the west door.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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