Church of Saint John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of Saint John the Baptist
- WRENN ID
- half-zinc-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint John the Baptist, Saint John's Road, Bishop Monkton
- OS grid reference
- SE 328 659
- Coordinates
- 54.08873, -1.49879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint John the Baptist is a Grade II listed church built around 1878. It features coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof. The church has a four-bay nave with a north-west tower above the porch, and a two-bay chancel with a vestry on the north side. Designed in the Early English style, the porch has a double-chamfered archway with a board door. The tower consists of three stages plus a steeple, with a square base, an octagonal second stage, and a belfry stage topped by a short stone steeple. The nave is adorned with lancet windows, and the east window has three lancets set under a roll moulding. The interior includes contemporary fittings.
Local climate
Church of Saint John the Baptist receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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