Church of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Lawrence and Saint Anne is a Grade I listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1949. A {C15,"1900 (modern vestries)","C18 and C19 (wall tablets present)"} Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Lawrence and Saint Anne
- WRENN ID
- shifting-arch-clover
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East MP: Saqib Bhatti (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1949
- Type
- Church
- Period
- {C15,"1900 (modern vestries)","C18 and C19 (wall tablets present)"}
- Address
- Church of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Lawrence and Saint Anne, Kenilworth Road, B93 0LN
- OS grid reference
- SP 182 767
- Coordinates
- 52.38835, -1.73344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Lawrence, and Saint Anne is a fine 15th-century stone church located on the north side of Kenilworth Road in Knowle, Solihull. It features a nave with a clerestory, a chancel, aisles, a west tower, and a north transept. There are modern vestries built to the north of the chancel in 1900, which include an organ chamber. This collegiate church is historically connected with the Guild or College of Saint Anne, which existed from 1416 to 1547. Inside, there is a 15th-century octagonal font, choir stalls with misericords, a restored chancel screen, and reset piscinae and sedilia. Additionally, there are wall tablets from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Local climate
Church of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Lawrence and Saint Anne receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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