St John the Baptist's Church, Leamington Spa
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| name = St John the Baptist's Church
| image = Church of St John the Baptist, Tachbrook Street, Leamington Spa - geograph.org.uk - 1416233.jpg
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| dedication = Saint John the Baptist
| denomination = Church of England
| churchmanship = Traditional Catholic
| parish = Leamington Spa
| deanery = Leamington & Warwick
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| diocese = Coventry
| province = Canterbury
| bishop = Rt Revd Paul Thomas SSC (AEO)
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| vicar = Fr Stephen Charles Parker SSC
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| website = https://www.stjohnsleamingtonspa.org.uk/
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St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglo-Catholic parish church in Leamington Spa, England. The historic structure is Grade II* listed.
History
The church of St John the Baptist was built between 1877 and 1878 to designs by the architect John Cundall of Leamington.The Buildings of England: Warwickshire. Nikolaus Pevsner: 1966
It was recently reroofed at a cost of £250,000 by Brown Matthews Architects.{{cite web |url=http://www.brownmatthews.co.uk/churches#f0577dac-dbad-4cef-98c3-6bd678de846e |title=Brown Matthews Architects » Churches |website=www.brownmatthews.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519102904/http://www.brownmatthews.co.uk/churches |archive-date=2012-05-19}}
It is a parish of the Society of St Wilfrid and St Hilda under the care of the Bishop of Oswestry.
Organ
The church has a two-manual pipe organ built by Henry Jones which dates from 1878. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.{{Cite web|url=http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N017536|title = The National Pipe Organ Register - NPOR}}
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- 1880–1888: Richard Yates Mander
References
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