Parish Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. A C14 Church. 1 related planning application.
Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cobble-owl
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St John the Baptist, the Street, Wittersham, TN30 7EA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 897 269
- Coordinates
- 51.01076, 0.70357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed building located in Wittersham. It is constructed of sandstone with Kentish ragstone quoins and features a Perpendicular style with some Decorated elements. The church includes a chancel with north and south chapels, a 14th-century nave with aisles, a north porch, and a crenellated west tower. Inside, there are crown post roofs in the nave and south aisle, as well as a piscina and sedilia. The chancel was restored in the mid to late 19th century. The churchyard contains early 18th-century headstones featuring cherub or skull motifs, early 19th-century headstones with sunray designs, and 19th-century oval bodystones.
Local climate
Parish 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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