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St John the Baptist,
Barnack
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St John the Baptist's Church, Barnack
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Location Barnack, Cambridgeshire
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Churchmanship Broad
Website https://parishnews-online.co.uk/st-john-the-baptist-church-barnack/
History
Dedication John the Baptist
Architecture
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade I
Designated 19 March 1962
Specifications
Spire height 114 feet (35 metres)
Administration
Parish Barnack with Ufford
Deanery Peterborough
Archdeaconry Oakham
Diocese Peterborough
Province Canterbury

The Church of St John the Baptist, Barnack is a Church of England parish church in the village of Barnack, now in the City of Peterborough unitary authority area of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Barnack was part of the Soke of Peterborough, an historic area that was traditionally part of Northamptonshire. Barnack is 3.5 miles (6 km) south-east of Stamford in Lincolnshire. The church is a Grade I listed building.

The church, dedicated to John the Baptist, is noted in particular for its Anglo-Saxon tower to which was added a spire of circa 1200, possibly one of the earliest spires in England.

In the north aisle is a large Romanesque sculpture of a seated Christ in Majesty that was discovered under the floor in 1931. Estimates of the date of the Christ vary widely, from the latter part of the 10th century to circa 1200; the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland settles on the late 12th century.

Simon Jenkins gives the church four stars in his England's Thousand Best Churches (1999) and highlights as features the tower, the stiff-leaf font and the Christ in Majesty.

The height of the surviving Anglo-Saxon work in the tower is 55 feet (17 metres), topped by an octagon and spire of 59 feet high (18 metres), giving a total height to the base of the weathervane of 114 feet (35 metres).

Gallery

  • St.John the Baptist's church, Barnack - geograph.org.uk - 204111

    St John from the southeast showing the Lady Chapel at left

  • A thousand years old - geograph.org.uk - 204116

    The square Anglo-Saxon tower; the top is later

  • Saxon doorway - geograph.org.uk - 204121

    Anglo-Saxon south doorway in the tower

  • Barnack Churchyard - geograph.org.uk - 204123

    Gravestones in the Churchyard

  • Barnack - geograph.org.uk - 204124

    Distant view from the north

  • Barnack - KMB - 16001000154286

    Porch and south aisle, photographed in 1926 by Berit Wallenberg

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