Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- scarred-tallow-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Church Road, Cookham Dean, SL6 9PD
- OS grid reference
- SU 871 851
- Coordinates
- 51.5582, -0.74444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church built in 1849 by R.C. Carpenter, designed in an early 14th-century style. A south chapel was added around 1866. The church is constructed of flint with Bath stone dressings and features a slate gabled and coped roof. It includes a nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch, and a bellcote. The exterior has a plinth and both angled and square buttresses. The timber gabled porch is adorned with cusping and a carved bargeboard.
On the south front, there are two-light windows with cusped tracery, square heads, and labels on the aisle. The south chapel has similar windows but with a two-centred arch, featuring mask and foliage labels. The east front showcases a three-light window with reticulated tracery, while the west front has a two-light window with cusped tracery.
Inside, the church has a plain white interior with a four-bay nave and an arch-braced collar roof. The chancel has a similar two-bay roof, but with thin arched wind braces supporting the side purlins. The south aisle features a four-bay arcade with alternate round and octagonal columns, complete with moulded capitals and bases. A stained glass window from 1893 by Kempe is located in the north wall.
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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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