Church of St John Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1961. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St John Baptist
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John Baptist, Frenchay Common, Winterbourne
- OS grid reference
- ST 639 774
- Coordinates
- 51.49508, -2.52069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John Baptist is an Anglican parish church located in Frenchay, built in 1834 by H. Rumley. The tower was restored in 1923 by Hartland Thomas. The church is constructed from rubble with freestone detailing and has a slate roof. It features a west tower, a galleried nave, a chancel, a north porch, and a south vestry.
The two-stage tower is supported by heavy, weathered diagonal buttresses and has a heavily moulded pointed door with angel corbels. Above the door is a two-light Decorated window, a clock beneath a label, and single lights on the sides with a cusped oculus at the top. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet and an octagonal spire. The five-bay nave is also battlemented, with tall buttresses and windows that have plain Y-tracery below and Decorated tracery above. The north porch is gabled and buttressed, while the narrower gabled chancel features a four-light Decorated window on the east side.
Inside, the church has a galleried interior with tall wave and shaft piers that rise to almost round arches and ribbed plaster vaults. The chancel arch is moulded, and the sanctuary has a plaster vaulted ceiling.
Local climate
Church of St John Baptist receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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