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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Middleton CP

Warwickshire

Mid-C12 with major additions of circa 1300 and of the late C15

Architectural Features

C12 coursed sandstone rubble and late C15 ashlar

plain tile roof over the north aisle

West tower: late C15

Nave and north aisle: C12 south door with half-roll and chevron moulded arch within a C18 brick (Flemish bond) porch with stone coped gable

To the left is a C19 tall 3-light mullioned window and to the right 3 C15 clerestory windows each with 3 trefoil-headed lights and hollow-moulded surrounds

Chancel: blocked C12 loop with semi-circular head, roughly in the centre of the north side

This latter is a C14 or C15 insertion and has a pointed head

Like the nave the chancel was given a clerestory in the late C15

C15 east window of 4 trefoil-headed lights beneath a 4-centred arch

Tall C15 pointed tower arch with outer sunk-chamfered order and inner wide ogee-moulded order, both interrupted by moulded imposts

Late C15 chancel arch of 2 orders with similar imposts to those of the tower arch

Fittings: C18 baluster font

C19 octagonal font with panelled basin on a squat pedestal

conical Gothick style font cover

Late C17 pulpit, square with canted corners.a The sides have fielded panels

C15 chancel screen of 2:1:2 bays

Monuments: chancel: Sir Richard Bingham, died 1476, and his wife Margeret

floor slab with brass effigies of a man and woman

brass plate and heraldic shield within an arched recess

very tall and elaborate wall monument

Stained glass: south window by Kempe. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p355