Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. A Medieval Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- high-grate-heath
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Butley
- OS grid reference
- TM 373 501
- Coordinates
- 52.09887, 1.46468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church with a core dating back to the 12th century, featuring a 14th-century tower and a 13th-century chancel and south porch. The church underwent significant restoration in 1868. The square tower is constructed from flint with ashlar quoins, while the nave and chancel are stuccoed over flint. The nave has a thatched roof, and the chancel is covered with plain tiles. The south doorway is adorned with one order of colonettes and an arch featuring zigzag moulding. The south porch retains part of a 13th-century former hood-mould with stiff-leaf crockets. The tower is topped with embattlemented flushwork and has decorated two-light louvered bell openings on all sides. Inside, there is a 15th-century octagonal font with four lions on the stem and four lions and four angels on the bowl, as well as a 15th-century screen with one light division and ogee arches.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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