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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Pewsey

Wiltshire

C13, C14, C15 and 1861 by G.E Street, restoration of 1889-90 by C.E Ponting

Architectural Features

pinnacles and gargoyles

niche with figure of St John

Windows late C13 lancets to chancel and reticulated east window

South chapel reused late C13-early C14 windows from chancel

Interior: early C13 arcade of four uneven chamfered pointed arches and flat soffits pierced through earlier walls leaving square piers

Door to rood screen

Interesting C19 murals of angels on interlaced background by Canon Bouverie, now covered over

Bold trefoiled C13 piscina and double arched sedilia

Fittings: font under tower

C12 limestone bowl on five columns

fine suspended font cover of open carved oak by Canon Bernard Pleydell Bouverie commemorating Indian campaigns

with carved font on stone base

lectern

choir stalls with boxes for hymnals and five steps to carved altar table

carved reredos with painted panels

Elaborate carved chancel screen with rood loft now removed to choir vestry in north aisle

Screen to organ chamber also C19, carved in relief

Monuments: in chancel, small foliated relief canopy in frame, set in wall

Also two C19 brasses In south chapel

wall monument

oval slate panel in deeply carved and painted strapwork surround

In south aisle, seven wall tablets, including a pair of oval inlaid marble monuments with crests, to Robert Hopper, died 1782, and William Hopper, died 1791, and relations

13 wall monuments of late C18-mid C19

one monument in organ chamber