Cote Baptist Church is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1981. Church.

Cote Baptist Church

WRENN ID
wild-steel-pine
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1981
Type
Church
Address
Cote Baptist Church, Aston, Shifford and Chimney
OS grid reference
SP 351 030
Coordinates
51.72551, -1.49301
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cote Baptist Church is a Baptist church built in the mid-18th century, around 1738. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled stone slate roof. The church has a one-cell plan and is designed in the Georgian style. The front facade is gabled and two stories high, with a three-window range. A semi-circular arch tops a window with leaded lights, which is flanked by bracketed flat hoods and flat stone arches over 18th-century four-panelled doors. The first floor has similar windows, and above is a flat-topped gable with a plaque and side scrolls. The left side wall and rear wall each have a two-window range with similar windows. To the right is a one-storey range made from the same materials, featuring a stone end stack, a flat stone arch over a plank door, and round-arched windows with leaded lights.

Inside, all fittings were installed in 1859 and include box pews with hinged doors, a gallery with a panelled front supported by corrugated iron posts, and accessed by two sets of 19th-century quarter-turn stairs. The pulpit has a shaped and panelled front, with a reader's desk and lectern located at the west end. There is also a memorial tablet dedicated to Thomas Dunscombe, the pastor who died in 1811. The chapel was originally founded in 1656.

Local climate

Cote Baptist Church receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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