Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1985. A Victorian Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- distant-glass-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Redditch MP: Chris Bloore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1985
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Stock and Bradley
- OS grid reference
- SO 986 602
- Coordinates
- 52.2403, -2.02165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church built between 1864 and 1865 by architect W J Hopkins. Constructed of sandstone with a machine tile roof, the church features a chancel, nave, and a tower located at the north-east corner between the chancel and nave. The tower has three stages and is topped with a stone broach spire. It includes two ogee-headed windows at the belfry stage and a single ogee-headed window on each side of the first stage. The chancel consists of two bays and has a trefoil-headed window in the east bay, while the east window features three trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head with a label. The nave has three bays, with a pair of trefoiled windows in the two eastern bays, and the west bay is occupied by a gabled north porch. The west window is a rose window under a 2-centred head with a label and engaged shafts to the responds.
Inside, the chancel arch is 2-centred and consists of two orders, with the inner order chamfered and dying into the responds. The tower arch is segmental pointed and also has two orders. The chancel roof has two bays with arch-braced trusses, while the nave features a scissor-braced common rafter/collar roof with ashlar pieces. The fittings include plain pews, a low stone pulpit in the south-west corner of the chancel, and fragments of two medieval tomb slabs set into the floor of the porch. The church is built on the site of a medieval chapel, and the chapelry of Bradley, which was part of Fladbury, became a parish in 1862.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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