St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham
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.Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in Inglesham, UK
- Also known as: “Saint John the Baptist” and “St John the Baptist’s, Inglesham”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Halfpenny Bridge and St Lawrence Church, Lechlade.
Halfpenny Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Halfpenny Bridge is a bridge across the River Thames, at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England. The bridge and its toll house are a Grade II listed building. Halfpenny Bridge is situated 4,000 feet northeast of St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham.
St Lawrence Church, Lechlade
Church
Photo: Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican St Lawrence Church, dedicated to St. Lawrence of Rome, is the Church of England parish church of Lechlade in Gloucestershire, England. The church building is Grade I listed and is described with admiration in Simon Jenkins's England's Thousand Best Churches. St Lawrence Church, Lechlade is situated 1 mile northeast of St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham.
St John’s Lock
Lock
Photo: Bencherlite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St John's Lock, below the town of Lechlade, Gloucestershire, is the furthest upstream lock on the River Thames in England. The name of the lock derives from a priory that was established nearby in 1250, but which no longer exists. St John’s Lock is situated 1 mile east of St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lechlade and Buscot.
Lechlade
Town
Photo: Philip Pankhurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lechlade is a town at the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England, 55 miles south of Birmingham and 68 miles west of London. It is the highest point at which the River Thames is navigable, although there is a right of navigation that continues south-west into Cricklade, in the neighbouring county of Wiltshire.
Buscot
Village
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Buscot is an English village and civil parish on the River Thames, about 1.5 miles south-east of Lechlade. Buscot was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. Two houses there contain notable collections of paintings. Buscot is situated 1½ miles east of St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham.
Little Faringdon
Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Faringdon is a village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, about 1 mile north of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire. The 2001 Census recorded its population as 63. Little Faringdon is situated 2½ miles northeast of St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham.
St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Inglesham, Swindon, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.68428° or 51° 41′ 3″ northLongitude
-1.7044° or 1° 42′ 16″ westOpen location code
9C3WM7MW+P6OpenStreetMap ID
way 360546178OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q7593751
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Russian—“St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه القديس يوحنا المعمدان”
- Italian: “chiesa di San Giovanni Battista”
- Italian: “Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista”
- Russian: “Церковь Иоанна Крестителя в Инглшеме”
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Highlights include Roundhouse Cottage and Riverside Park.
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