Church of St. John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Fishermen's store.

Church of St. John the Baptist

WRENN ID
tilted-jade-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
Fishermen's store
Address
Church of St. John the Baptist, Radyr, Llandaff
OS grid reference
ST 139 790
Coordinates
51.5038, -3.24149
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St. John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building constructed from polychromatic random rubble, primarily involving the refacing or rebuilding of medieval walls by Prichard. It features a Welsh slate roof with a stone bell-cote that has trefoiled openings on the west gable. The church consists of a nave with a south porch and a chancel that includes a north vestry.

The nave has two windows on the south wall: a single light trefoil-headed window to the left of the porch and a two-light window to the right. These window arrangements are mirrored on the north wall, with an additional single light window on the west gable. The porch is designed with a pointed arch, a coped gable, and a gable cross. The chancel has a Perpendicular style east window with three lights, while the south chancel wall features two windows: a two-light window to the left and a single light window to the right, both with plate tracery and trefoil heads. The north chancel wall is covered by the vestry, which has a two-light plain window and a doorway, along with a single light window in the east return. The building has coped gables with crosses and a tall cylindrical chimney for the vestry on the north slope of the nave gable.

The interior has been plastered and painted throughout around the year 2000. It exhibits a more medieval character than the exterior, especially in the window arches and the possibly late 14th-century chancel arch with its battered sides. The nave features a six-bay roof with arch-braced tie-beams and moulded main beams, while the chancel has a four-bay 19th-century waggon roof. A medieval limestone font is present, and the pews are Victorian, with a mid-20th-century pulpit. The chancel window, dated 1915, may have replaced a triple lancet. There are several notable memorials, particularly two in the chancel, one signed by E Morgan from Canton and the other by H Woodcott from Bristol.

Local climate

Church of St. John the Baptist sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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