Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1959. A Medieval Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- south-tin-elm
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Church Street, Stiffkey
- OS grid reference
- TF 974 429
- Coordinates
- 52.94792, 0.93782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed parish church located on Church Street in Stiffkey. The church features a largely Perpendicular style, although the tower and charnel are earlier structures. It includes a west tower, a north porch, a nave, and a chancel. The nave, which has four bays, showcases a flushwork parapet that incorporates the earlier west tower. The north porch, dating from the early 15th century, is adorned with armorial shields in octofoils and has a gable featuring brick and flint chequer work, with the springing of the groins visible inside. The chancel dates from the late 13th or early 14th century and contains a rood stair on the south side of the nave. The nave roof is arched braced, while the chancel roof and east window tracery were added in 1848. There is a 13th-century piscina, 19th-century benches, and stalls from around 1920, along with a Holy Table and reredos. Two medieval stalls with misericords are also present, and there is a wall monument to Nathaniel Bacon, which predates 1615 and is possibly by Maximilian Colt.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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