Church of St John Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Church.
Church of St John Baptist
- WRENN ID
- low-grate-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John Baptist, Chittlehamholt
- OS grid reference
- SS 645 204
- Coordinates
- 50.96727, -3.92985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John Baptist is a parish church built in 1838 by R D Gould. It is constructed from roughly dressed, coursed stone rubble and features a slate roof with coped gable ends. The church has an aisleless nave and a shallow, narrower sanctuary at the east end. There are entrances at the west end and on the north side, and the building is designed in an Early English style.
Gabletted angle buttresses are present at the east and west ends of the nave and at the east end of the chancel. Intermediate buttresses are located between the five bays of lancets on the north and south sides, each with pointed arched hoodmoulds that have unusual hourglass-shaped label stops. The east and west ends feature stepped triple lancets with moulded surrounds and nook shafts. The west doorway is steeply pointed and has a heavily moulded surround, leading to a plank door with two leaves and strap hinges.
The canted north porch has a hipped slate roof, a pointed arched doorway, and a lancet on the north-west side. Inside, the church has painted plastered walls and a segmental pointed arched ceiling. The 19th-century furnishings are entirely intact and include nave seating with trefoil pieced bench ends, a stone reredos with four blind pointed arched panels featuring painted texts, a wooden altar table with an open traceried front, a polygonal pulpit on a stone base, altar rails, a timber entrance lobby, and a font with an octagonal bowl supported on a slender stem and a modest screen with a crenellated headrail, peaked at the centre, supported on chamfered timber posts. Most windows, except for one on the south side, two on the north side, and the west window, have diamond leaded coloured glass. There is also a small stained glass window at the east end of the north aisle dedicated to Fanny Morgan, who died in 1939.
Local climate
Church of St John Baptist receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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