Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II* listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1965. A Medieval Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- dark-courtyard-coral
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1965
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Main Street, Heather
- OS grid reference
- SK 390 108
- Coordinates
- 52.69387, -1.42427
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church dating from the early 14th century, which underwent restoration in 1847. This restoration included the addition of a new chancel and a north aisle, carried out by Henry Isaac Stevens of Derby, designed to complement the medieval character of the church. The building is constructed from well-coursed grey-green sandstone that is heavily tooled.
The church features a west tower, which originally had a spire, adorned with gargoyles and thin corner pinnacles. The nave has a low clerestory with square-headed paired tracery lights, and there are two aisles with simple tracery windows, while curvilinear tracery is found in other areas. Inside, the nave arcade is supported by piers with heavy abaci, and there is a wall monument in the chancel made of marble, dedicated to Stephen Everard, dated 1615, which includes relief figures of his family. The churchyard contains a series of slate headstones.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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