---
title: "St John the Baptist, Barnack"
description: "Located in Barnack, Cambridgeshire. Built Early C11 tower; late C12 to early C14 nave, aisles and chancel. Diocese of Peterborough. Grade I. Anglo-Saxon tower; Romanesque and Gothic style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Cambridgeshire","Barnack","Grade I","Anglo-Saxon","Barnack Stone"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-john-baptist-barnack"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:15:09.383Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-09T12:29:36.065Z"
location: "Barnack, Cambridgeshire"
country: "England"
county: "Cambridgeshire"
town: "Barnack"
address: "Main Street, Barnack, Cambridgeshire, PE9 3DN"
postcode: "PE9 3DN"
built: "Early C11 tower; late C12 to early C14 nave, aisles and chancel"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["John the Baptist"]
diocese: "Peterborough"
grade: "I"
style: "Anglo-Saxon tower; Romanesque and Gothic"
materials: "Barnack stone with Collyweston stone and lead-clad roofs"
website: "http://www.parishnews-online.co.uk/barnack-bainton-church-services"
openingHours: "Open daily dawn to dusk."
parish: "Barnack"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1126844"
gridReference: "TF 079 050"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St John the Baptist, Barnack

St John the Baptist is a Grade I Church of England parish church on Main Street, Barnack, in the Diocese of Peterborough. The village lies in the historic Soke of Peterborough.

## Overview

Historic England records an important church with Saxon work, built of Barnack stone with Collyweston stone and lead-clad roofs. The early eleventh-century west tower is the principal feature: the lower two storeys have long-and-short quoins, lesenes, triangular- and round-headed windows, carved decorative slabs, and a blocked south doorway. The third stage is octagonal, with large two-light bell-openings, and is surmounted by a squat stone spire, among the earliest broach spires in England.

The listing also notes a Saxon nave, a late twelfth-century north chapel and north aisle, an early thirteenth-century south aisle and a fine stone-vaulted south porch with stiff-leaf capitals, and an early fourteenth-century chancel with a five-light east window. The north aisle houses a Romanesque seated Christ in Majesty found under the floor in 1931.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1126844](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1126844)