Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Church.

Church of St John the Baptist

WRENN ID
turning-pewter-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1984
Type
Church
Address
Church of St John the Baptist, Hawes Road, Garsdale, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
SD 746 895
Coordinates
54.30088, -2.39142
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St John the Baptist is a church rebuilt in 1860, as indicated on the rainwater head, and has undergone restoration. It is constructed of sandstone rubble brought to courses, with freestone dressings and a graduated slate roof, designed in the Early English style.

The church features a nave with a west bellcote, a south porch, a chancel, and a north vestry. The five-bay nave includes buttresses and a string-course, with a gabled porch at the first bay that has a two-centred arched doorway and a coped gable topped with an apex cross. Each of the other bays contains a simple lancet window with tinted geometrical leaded glazing. The building has a moulded cast-iron gutter supported by stone brackets, along with two downspouts featuring moulded rainwater hoppers dated "1860". The west gable wall displays two lancet windows with a trefoil above them, and a two-stage bellcote housing two bells in the lower stage. The small one-bay chancel has a triple-lancet east window, and there is a lean-to vestry on the north side.

Inside, the church has an arch-braced queen-strut roof, a Gothic-style pulpit, and a Perpendicular-style choir screen at the east bay of the nave, along with a two-centred chancel arch. Various wall monuments, mostly from the 19th century, commemorate individuals such as Thomas Dawson of Dandragarth (died 1810), Edmund Dawson "generosi" of Dandragarth (died 1838), Rev. Edmund Dawson, vicar of Alford, Lincolnshire (died 1852), and Rev. James Dawson (died 1852) along with his son James Edmund Dawson, MD, MCRS, LSA, who died in Liverpool in 1880.

Local climate

Church of St John the Baptist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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