Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Church.

Church of St John the Baptist

WRENN ID
twelfth-tin-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1983
Type
Church
Address
Church of St John the Baptist, the Avenue, Clayton
OS grid reference
SE 118 319
Coordinates
53.78383, -1.8214
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St John the Baptist was built between 1849 and 1850 and designed by the architectural firm Mallinson and Healey. It features an ashlar-faced exterior with a tall nave that includes a clerestory, low aisles, transepts, and a chancel. At the west end, there is a square tower with clasping buttresses. The windows exhibit reticulated and panel tracery, complete with drip moulds. The tower has two-light belfry openings and is topped with crenellated parapets. The church also boasts large reticulated west windows on the gable ends of the aisles. Its prominent location and distinctive tower make St John's a key feature of the town's skyline.

Local climate

Church of St John the Baptist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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