Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Warwick local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Parish church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- narrow-corner-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warwick
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Main Street, Wasperton
- OS grid reference
- SP 265 587
- Coordinates
- 52.22657, -1.61239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church located on Main Street in Wasperton. It was built in 1843 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, adapting elements from a church originally constructed in 1736. The church is made of red sandstone and features plain tile roofs. It is designed in the Early English and Decorated styles and includes a nave, chancel, south aisle, south vestry, and a north porch.
Notable architectural features include an octagonal bell-turret at the west end, which is lead-clad and topped with a short spire, as well as a 19th-century timber-framed north porch that contains early 16th-century glass. The windows are decorated with traceried designs characteristic of the style.
Inside, the church has a three-bay south arcade in the Early English style, along with crown-post roofs in the nave and aisle that feature crenellated tie-beams. There are angel corbels in the chancel, and a screen designed by Scott, dated 1845, which is in a style reminiscent of around 1300. The pulpit dates from circa 1600, and the communion rail is an early 18th-century wrought iron piece. The east window is by Hardman, designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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