Country England Churchmanship High Anglican Functional status Active Phone +44 1780 740234 | Denomination Church of England Dedication John the Baptist Parish Barnack Designated as world heritage site 19 March 1962 | |
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Location Barnack, Cambridgeshire Address Main St, Barnack PE9 3DN, UK Diocese Anglican Diocese of Peterborough People also search for Barnack Hills & Holes National Nature Reserve, Church of England parish church, Burghley House | ||
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 in the county of Cambridgeshire. Barnack was formerly part of the Soke of Peterborough, an historic area that was traditionally associated with 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.