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

Old Church of St John the Baptist

WRENN ID
salt-pinnacle-gorse
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1958
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Old Church of St John the Baptist, the Lee
OS grid reference
SP 897 043
Coordinates
51.731, -0.7014
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Church of St John the Baptist is a former parish church dating from the 13th century, with an 18th-century south porch. It is constructed of flint rubble and roughcast, featuring clunch dressings, and has a brick south porch. The church has brick buttresses at the south-east angle that are either raking or stepped, and flint buttresses with stone dressings at the north-east angle. The roofs are covered with old tiles.

The church includes lancet windows, with some medieval stained glass found in the early 14th-century east window, which has three lights. The west doorway is a 15th-century four-centred design. Inside, the nave and chancel are undivided, and there is a crown post roof with added curved queen struts. The east, north, and south walls feature raised and fielded panelling below the dado. There is an early 14th-century piscina and sedilia, as well as a medieval south nave door leading into the porch. The interior also contains 18th-century wall tablets.

Local climate

Old 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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