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St John The Baptist In The Wilderness

Lower Shuckburgh

Warwickshire

C13 or earlier origins

Architectural Features

tower C13 with C19 bell stage

Tile roofs have coped gable parapets and kneelers

Tudor-arch and hood-mould with carved lozenge stops below

C14 foliated stone child's coffin lid inset

but with early/mid C18 inset carved panels of a skull

hour glass

Moulded C14/C15 arch with 2-light windows

Good mid C19 encaustic tile floor, probably Minton to designs by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Chancel roof has moulded corbels with carved symbolic animals holding banners

Hammer-beams have angels holding texts

Elaborate carving, Panelled roof with decorative wind bracing

Early English style moulded tower arch has colonnettes with naturalistically carved capitals and corbels

Fittings: C17 octagonal font and lid with finial on C19 stem

Lavishly carved mid C19 pulpit and with twisted columns, Gothic tracery, naturalistic foliage, etc

Lectern with buttresses and angle brackets

Benches with carved fleurs-de-lys ends and Gothic open panels

Stained glass: some late C16 heraldic panels in nave south-west window

Monuments to the Shuckburgh family

pair of brasses

wall monument by Hunt of Northampton

fine Baroque wall monument with portrait bust

lower half of brass

parts of brasses

classical wall monument of coloured marble with fine portrait medallion

large painted monument with effigies , deep arch and canopy with columns

elaborate Baroque monument on pedestal with bust in niche, said to be by Beniers

Neoclassical wall monument

Neoclassical wall monument with sarcophagus angel and urn

wall monument with globe and astrolabe by Flaxman

Nave south: Lady Grace 1677: wall monument

fine Neoclassical wall monument by Flaxman, with relief of the deceased and her grieving family around her

elaborate Gothic wall monument by R. Brown

with a hand holding a brass scroll

An excellent example of a small estate church with fine monuments to the Shuckburgh family who have lived at Shuckburgh for 1000 years. (V.C.H.: Warickshire: Vol.VI, pp.217-218

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