Church of St John in the Wilderness is a Grade II* listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1949. Church.
Church of St John in the Wilderness
- WRENN ID
- winter-portal-curlew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1949
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John in the Wilderness, St John's Road, Exmouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 028 833
- Coordinates
- 50.64188, -3.37582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John in the Wilderness is a Grade II* listed building located on the south-east side of St John's Road in Withycombe Raleigh. Originally built as a parish church in the 15th century, it was largely demolished around 1748. However, the tower and part of the north aisle were preserved, and the rest of the church has been skillfully reconstructed. The west tower is made of sandstone and features a crenellated parapet, string courses, angle buttresses, and a polygonal staircase turret. The windows of the church are generally in the Perpendicular style. The interior includes a small two-bay chancel and retains a carved 15th-century capital at the west end of the nave arcade. The church is said to have been founded in the 13th century, with some Norman fragments found on a window sill.
Local climate
Church of St John in the Wilderness receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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