Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318690
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2000-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/00665/22
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter Letcher. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318690
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ebbesborne Wake
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 99155 24175
Details
ST 92 SE EBBESBOURNE WAKE EBBESBOURNE WAKE VILLAGE (west side)
6/116 Church of St. John the Baptist
23.3.60
GV II*
Anglican parish church. C14, C17 and restored 1876. Flint with limestone dressings, ashlar tower, tiled roof. Plan: nave, chancel, west tower, north aisle and transept, south porch. Gabled south porch has double chamfered pointed doorway, coped verge with cross finial. Nave to left and right has restored 2- light pointed window with Y-tracery and hoodmould, angle buttresses to west. Chancel has 2-light window with Y-tracery, buttress with offsets, rainwater heads dated 1876. East end has 2 buttresses and 2-light C19 pointed window, over is incised tablet: WP IB/1696; William Perry and John Bodenham who paid for chancel repairs. North side of chancel has C19 two-light window, lean-to vestry has chamfered shouldered doorway and 3 shouldered windows. North side of nave has two 2-light windows with Y-tracery, blocked pointed chamfered doorway. Two-stage C14 west tower has diagonal buttresses with niches, pentagonal stair turret with arrowloops, heavily moulded plinth and blocked cyma-moulded doorway to west, 3- light Perpendicular window over, offset bell stage has 3-light square-headed windows with Tudor-arched lights and pierced decorative louvres, parapet with coping and corner pinnacles. Interior: Three-bay nave has C19 crown post trusses and scissor- rafter roof, tiled floor, windows have restored C13 attached shafts and cusped inner openings. Wooden chancel screen with traceried openings, of 1899. Chance as polychrome tiled floor, double chamfered C19 arch to vestry/organ chamber, 2-bay roof similar to nave, trefoil piscina and sedilia below enriched pediments with pinnacles. Tower has tall pointed opening from nave with hollow- chamfered arch on foliated corbels, rib-vaulted ceiling springing from corbels with carved beasts and heraldic shields, Tudor-arched chamfered doorway to tower stairs on north. Fine C12 Purbeck marble font, in tower, has central column with 4 shafts supporting square bowl. C19 pews and pulpit. Chancel glass of 1870s to Parham family. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975.)
Listing NGR: ST9915524175
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320342
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 13-Jul-2026 at 08:50:42.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.