Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. Church.

Church of St John the Baptist

WRENN ID
last-chamber-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1972
Type
Church
Address
Church of St John the Baptist, the Street, Moulsford
OS grid reference
SU 591 841
Coordinates
51.55304, -1.14814
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building located in Moulsford, dating from around 1846 and designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is built on old foundations and features a flint and stone base with stone dressings, topped with an old plain-tile roof. To the left, there is a wooden bell tower with a splay-footed shingled roof. The church is designed in the Early English style and consists of a 3-bay nave, a north aisle, and a chancel, with a west tower.

The entrance includes a central open timber-framed porch leading to a 2-centred arched doorway, which is adorned with a hood mould. The door is made of planks and has wrought iron hinges. To the left of the doorway are paired lancet windows, while to the right of the centre are a paired trefoil-topped lancet and another trefoil-topped lancet. The east end features a 3-light window with reticulated tracery, and there are single and paired lancets throughout the north aisle.

Inside, the nave has an arch-braced roof, while the chancel is topped with a barrel-vault roof. The chancel contains 19th-century stained glass, and there is a piscina to the right of the chancel. The interior also boasts a richly carved pulpit, lectern, and choir stalls, along with a wooden arcaded communion rail. The north aisle features three segmental pointed arches, corbelled to the aisle side, and there is an octagonal 19th-century font with carved quatrefoils on each side. The east end displays a good series of wall monuments dating from around 1694.

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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 1 and 2, The Street Grade II 153 m
  2. The Bakery Grade II 228 m
  3. Moulsford Grange and Attached Wall Grade II 285 m
  4. Cranford House School Grade II 304 m
  5. Kates Cottage Grade II 333 m
  6. Wall to North Side of the Great House Meadow Grade II 396 m
  7. Mead Corner Grade II 416 m
  8. Pye Corner Grade II 431 m
  9. Wall to the Great House Meadow Grade II 481 m
  10. Wall to the Great House Meadow Grade II 556 m