The Parish Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1954. A Medieval Church.
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- final-buttress-barley
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Worthing West MP: Dr Beccy Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Findon Road, Arun
- OS grid reference
- TQ 116 084
- Coordinates
- 50.86499, -0.41489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade I listed building located on Findon Road. It features a chancel, a north chapel, a south transept, and twin naves under a single roof, along with a north porch and a west tower topped with a broached shingled spire. The church is constructed from flints. The nave arcade displays Transitional Norman architecture, while the walls of the nave and the rest of the church date back to the 13th century. The nave's roof was rebuilt as a single span with crown-posts, likely in the 15th century. Although the entire structure was restored by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1867, it retains its medieval character and charm. Notably, it is quite large for a village situated in the downland. There is also a 13th-century screen separating the north chancel from the nave.
Local climate
The Parish Church of St John the Baptist 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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