Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1985. Church.
Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- keen-vault-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St John the Baptist, Main Street, Pockley, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 637 860
- Coordinates
- 54.2665, -1.02302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St John the Baptist is a church built in 1870 and/or 1876, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott or George Gilbert Scott Junior, and is in the Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of hammer-dressed limestone with sandstone dressings and has a Westmorland slate roof. The church features a 3-bay nave with a south porch and a 2-bay chancel that includes a vestry on the north side.
At the west end, a central buttress supports a bellcote that has four openings. The south porch contains a pointed doorway and a single-light trefoil-headed window above it. The nave has 3-light windows with reticulated tracery on the south side, while the chancel features 2-light windows with curvilinear tracery and a 3-light east window also with curvilinear tracery. The vestry includes an ogee-headed door on the west side and a 2-light window with curvilinear tracery on the east side.
Inside, there is a 13th-century font with a plain bowl supported by six attached shafts that have moulded capitals. The screen was added in 1898-1899 by Temple Moore.
Local climate
Church of St John the Baptist receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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