St John

Mid and late C14 work in chancel: hoodmoulded south doorway, reticulated traceried east window and two south windows, ogee-headed piscina.

Mid C14 south nave arcade of 5 bays, with fluted octagonal shafts and moulded capitals.

Reset and restored late C14 aisle windows.

Fine late C15 tower, with twin belfry windows on each face under a single hoodmould.

Good C15 nave clerestory: 5 bays of traceried windows, between each is a pillar once supporting a figure, and beneath is a frieze moulded and with fleurons of a wide variety of designs.

Tall C15 shafted tower arch.

In 1872 the north aisle was added: the north doorway and several windows, all of late C13, were re-set in its walls: Y- traceried windows, and the doorway which has a heavy hoodmould with grotesque corbels.

The C15 porch has 3 image niches over the entrance, whose jambs and shafts remain.

Mid C14 inner south doorway.

Interior fittings: The northern arm of a C15 parclose screen in the south aisle: 4 traceried panels with cresting above, the solid panels below have C20 painted figures.

C15 octagonal limestone font: the sunk faces of the bowl have shields each bearing a letter, beneath it are angels, and birds support the stem.

TL9863 : St John the Baptist, Elmswell - Font

© John Salmon

5 good C15 poppyhead benches with traceried ends and buttresses in the north aisle, and 5 more in the south.

A fine monument in the south aisle to Sir Robert Gardener : a coloured reclining figure with his kneeling son beside him and an empty gown lying below.

A C15 slab in the south aisle floor with large brass sinking: a figure within a large cross.