St John the Baptist Church

#3769 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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St John the Baptist Church in Inglesham, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, has Anglo-Saxon origins but most of the current structure was built around 1205. Much of the church has not changed since the medieval era. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant on 1 April 1980 and was vested in the Trust on 28 October 1981. ()

Architectural style: Anglo-Saxon architectureCoordinates: 51°39'59"N, 1°42'16"W

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St John the Baptist Church – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Trout Inn, Swindon Stadium, Buscot House, Westmill Woodland Burial Ground.

2 miNE
Nightlife
Trout Inn, Lechlade
51 min walk • The Trout Inn is a pub next to the River Thames at Lechlade in the English county of Gloucestershire. The Grade II listed stone building consists of two two-storey structures, one late medieval and the other added in the 18th century.
5.5 miSW
Arenas and stadiums, Sport venue, Sport
Swindon Stadium, Swindon
142 min walk • Swindon Stadium, also known as the Abbey Stadium, is a Greyhound Board of Great Britain regulated greyhound racing track and speedway track in Blunsdon, Swindon, England.
2.4 miE
Historical place, Park, History museum
Buscot House, Faringdon
61 min walk • Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. It remained in the family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian.
3.9 miSE
Cemetery
Westmill Woodland Burial Ground
100 min walk • Westmill Woodland Burial Ground is a green burial ground in the Vale of White Horse on the border of Oxfordshire with Wiltshire in southern England.
5.5 miN
Church
St Michael and St Martin's Church, Cotswold Water Park
140 min walk • St Michael and St Martin's Church is a historic Anglican church in Eastleach Martin, Gloucestershire, England under the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.
3.6 miE
Forts and castles
Badbury Hill
93 min walk • Badbury Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Great Coxwell near Faringdon in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire. The summit of the hill is the site of an Iron Age hill fort known as Badbury Camp. It is roughly circular in shape, most of which was levelled early in the 19th century.
5.3 miE
Bridge
Radcot Bridge
136 min walk • Radcot Bridge is a crossing of the Thames in England, south of Radcot, Oxfordshire, and north of Faringdon, Oxfordshire which is in the district of that county that was in Berkshire. It carries the A4095 road across the reach above Radcot Lock.
1.8 miNE
Park
Buscot Lock
48 min walk • Buscot Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, near the village of Buscot, Oxfordshire. The lock was built of stone by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1790 and is the smallest on the River Thames.
4.9 miNE
Church
St Matthew's Church
125 min walk • The Parish Church of Saint Matthew, Langford is the Church of England parish church of Langford, a village in West Oxfordshire about 3 miles northeast of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire.
4.2 miE
History museum
Great Coxwell Barn
108 min walk • Great Coxwell Barn is a Medieval tithe barn at Great Coxwell, Oxfordshire, England. It is on the northern edge of the village of Great Coxwell, which is about 9 miles northeast of Swindon in neighbouring Wiltshire.
3.2 miNE
Museum, History museum
Kelmscott Manor
82 min walk • Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England.