Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- vacant-rotunda-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Leyton and Wanstead MP: Mr Calvin Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, High Road E11
- OS grid reference
- TQ 394 874
- Coordinates
- 51.56876, 0.01093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist, built between 1832 and 1833 by E Blore, is a Grade II listed building. It has undergone alterations and additions in 1893, 1902, 1910, and 1929. The church is constructed of gault brick with stone dressings, and the south aisle is roughcast. It features a steeply pitched slate roof that extends to the eaves. The layout includes a nave, chancel, a southeast chapel dated 1909, low transepts, and a southwest tower designed in an early English Gothic style, complemented by Arts and Crafts Gothic south aisles. The nave has lancet windows and lacks a clerestory, while the south aisle features 2-light plate tracery with alternate groups that are taller and rise to form half dormers. The east end has stepped lancets. The square tower consists of three stages, an openwork parapet, and pinnacles, with a clock located on the second stage and an entrance on the south side. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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