Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1981. A 19th century Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- keen-entrance-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, St John's Walk
- OS grid reference
- TL 470 116
- Coordinates
- 51.78399, 0.13096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist, built in 1839, is a Grade II listed building constructed of stock brick in Flemish bond. It features a tall nave, a lower chancel, and a west tower with a taller stair turret at the northeast, all topped with battlements. The roofs are ridged and gabled, with eaves covered in grey slate, leaving raised and stone-coped gables. The architectural style is a severe Early English, characterized by lancet windows. The chancel has angle buttresses similar to those of the tower, both of which are gabletted and have two offsets. A dentil cornice of headers runs along the eaves, and there is a stone sill band.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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