Parish Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1958. Church.

Parish Church of St John the Baptist

WRENN ID
seventh-wicket-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1958
Type
Church
Address
Parish Church of St John the Baptist, the Lee
OS grid reference
SP 898 043
Coordinates
51.7309, -0.70007
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St John the Baptist was built between 1867 and 1869 by Augustus Frere. In 1910, E.H. Fellowes Poynne added a vestry, aisles, and a baptistry at the west end, along with internal alterations. The church is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, featuring sill and abacus bands, and has tiled roofs. It includes a 2-bay chancel and a 4-bay nave, with the east two bays being aisled. The design is in the Early English Gothic style, characterized by lancet windows, including a three-light east window, and cusping on the lancets and windows from the 1910 work. The exterior has stepped buttresses, coped gables with crosses at the apexes, and a bellcote at the west end. A foundation stone on the north wall of the chancel is inscribed "relaid by Emma Louise Liberty on Enlargement of Church 14th October 1910."

Inside, the church features colour-washed render, stone dressings, arches, and piers. There are depressed arches leading into the transepts, and the chancel roof is panelled with ribs and bosses. The nave has arches of two chamfered orders leading into the aisles, which have three-light windows. The chancel arch consists of two orders with moulded capitals on cobels. The nave also has a braced and ashlared collar rafter roof.

Local climate

Parish Church of St John the Baptist sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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