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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Hartwell

Northamptonshire

Built 1851 by Charles Vickers of London at a cost of £2,000 in Norman and Early English styles, retaining Transitional north arcade of Medieval church

Architectural Features

Coursed squared limestone and plain-tile roof

Vestry and stair to pulpit over boiler-house to north side of chancel has small chamfered lancet windows, Caernarvon-arched door at basement level, cornice with stiff-leaf decoration, lean-to slate roof, and circular stone flue

Interior: chancel has three-bay stepped arcade to pulpit stair with circular shafts, stiff-leaf capitals and trefoiled double-chamfered arches

Stone pulpit incorporated in structure on north side of chancel arch and corbelled out from wall

Nave has four-bay arcade of former church, late C12 or early C13, with round piers, capitals carved with stylized foliage, that furthest west incorporates serpents with intertwined tails, those to two easternmost piers have heads

Tub font with intersecting round-headed arcading.