Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- small-groin-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Manchester Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 772 265
- Coordinates
- 53.73481, -2.34689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist, built in 1877 by H. Varley, is a church located on Manchester Road in Baxenden. It is constructed from snecked rock-faced stone and features a slate roof. The church is designed in the Early English style and includes a nave with aisles, a three-sided chancel, and a south tower topped with a spire.
The tower is three stages high and has angle buttresses, with a notable hollow-moulded cornice at the second stage. The octagonal belfry is adorned with a string course, and the octagonal spire has a splayed base that overhangs the belfry. On the south side of the tower, there is an arched doorway with three orders, supported by two shafts featuring carved fern-leaf capitals, all under a gablet. Above this doorway are coupled cusped windows. The buttressed four-bay aisles have arched windows with two cusped lights, each displaying different tracery in the heads. The nave includes a clerestory with triple-light windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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