Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A Medieval Church. 5 related planning applications.

Church of St John the Baptist

WRENN ID
knotted-stone-ochre
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St John the Baptist, St John's Maddermarket, NR2 1DN
OS grid reference
TG 229 086
Coordinates
52.62996, 1.2928
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed parish church, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed of flint with stone and brick dressings, featuring an ashlar faced clerestory. The church has a slate roof, with a lead roof on the aisles. It comprises a west tower, nave, and chancel in one, along with north and south aisles and porches. A 19th-century vestry is also present.

The tower is four stages high and has diagonal buttresses. There is a north to south passage beneath the tower, which features three-order two-centre arches and tierceron vaulting. Above, there is a large blocked brick west arch with a three-light perpendicular window. The tower has 20th-century belfry windows and a crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles that have statues.

The nave and chancel are four bays long, with three three-light perpendicular windows in the south aisle. The south porch is two storeys high and has a damaged vault inside, incorporated into the west end of the aisle. There is a priest's door at the east end of the aisle and eight tall three-light clerestory windows. The large 15th-century five-light decorated east window is a notable feature, as is the north aisle's east window, which has cusped intersecting tracery. The two-storeyed north porch is now used as a chapel and has an outer doorway with a shield band in the outer order and attached shafts, along with a central statue niche and a three-light square-headed window above.

Local climate

Church of St John the Baptist sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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