Church of St John Baptist is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1966. A Medieval Former church.
Church of St John Baptist
- WRENN ID
- blind-facade-elm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1966
- Type
- Former church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St John Baptist, Llanrothal
- OS grid reference
- SO 470 185
- Coordinates
- 51.86336, -2.77012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John Baptist is a former parish church that is now partly roofless. The north wall of the nave dates back to the 12th century, while the rest of the structure, including the chancel and former north vestry, is from the 13th century and was restored in the 20th century. The nave, which used to have a south porch, now has a chancel and a north vestry that serves as a porch. The roofless nave features two window openings at the eastern end of the north wall: a single round-headed light from the 12th century on the west side and a trefoiled light from the 13th century on the east side. There are also two similar 13th-century single-light windows flanking a segmental-pointed-headed doorway on the south side.
The chancel has a large, late 14th-century traceried window on the south side, which is damaged at the head and sill. This window has four lights with cinquefoil ogee heads above a traceried transom, and trefoiled lights below. It is an interesting feature, likely significant, and is related to a restored window of the same type at Pembridge Castle. The east window contains two cusped lights and a central circle in plate tracery. Inside the chancel, there is a 20th-century roof. Notable fittings include a 17th-century pulpit with four-panelled sides and primitive incised decoration, plain floor slabs from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and a brass chandelier that is partly from the 15th century and partly from the 19th century, donated by Ivor Bulmer Thomas. This church is soon to be vested in the Redundant Churches Fund. It is an unpretentious country church that was overlooked by the Victorians and retains much of its pre-Reformation character, including large areas of thin protective rendering.
Local climate
Church of St John Baptist receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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