Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1988. Parish church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- pitched-threshold-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1988
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Church Lane, Hammerwich
- OS grid reference
- SK 070 073
- Coordinates
- 52.66397, -1.89791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church built between 1873 and 1883 by architects Newman and Billing. It is constructed from rock-faced random coursed sandstone and features tiled roofs with verge parapets. The church is designed in the Early English style and includes a west steeple, nave, apse, and north aisle.
The steeple consists of three stages with clasping buttresses and is set into the tower at the bell chamber level, which has corbelled eaves, a broach spire, and lucarnes. The bell chamber has pointed, paired openings, and above the pointed west door is a triple, pointed west window. An octagonal stair turret is integrated into the southeast angle of the nave, which has corbelled eaves and three bays of paired, pointed windows separated by two-stage buttresses.
The apse is only slightly lower than the nave and features two short bays on the sides and a three-sided east end, all adorned with trefoil-headed lancets. The east window under the gablet has two lights. The aisle has pent, paired pointed windows, and a vestry is positioned against the tower.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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