Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1985. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- stark-facade-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1985
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Wood Lane, Kidmore End, RG4 9AY
- OS grid reference
- SU 698 793
- Coordinates
- 51.5085, -0.99506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a church built in 1852 by Arthur Billing, with a vestry added in 1894. It is constructed of knapped flint with stone dressings and has a plain tile roof. The church features a 4-bay nave with an apse, designed in the Early English style. There is a gabled porch to the right of the center, which includes a 2-centred arched doorway with a glazed 20th-century double door. Each bay has a single lancet window, except for the left bay, which has a paired lancet. The octagonal apse has a lancet window on each face, and the west end features two lancet windows with a quatrefoil window above. The south side also has lancet windows. The vestry is built in a similar style and has a catslide roof. The nave has a gabled roof, while the apse has a hipped roof and a bellcote on the west end gable.
Inside, there is a stone octagonal font with carved panels on marble columns with a stepped base. A stone pulpit with Salviati mosaic panels is located to the left of the apse arch, and an organ with painted decoration on the pipes is to the right. There is a piscina to the left of the altar and sedilia to the right. The reredos features blind trefoil arches on three sides of the apse, and the apse floor is adorned with ornamental glazed faience tiles. The nave has a wooden truss roof, while the apse has a painted brick vault with decorated ribs. This small church is noted for its good fittings.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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