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St John The Baptist

Tiffield

Northamptonshire

C13 and C14

Architectural Features

Coursed limestone rubble, slate roofs to nave and chancel, lead roofs to aisles and tower, plain-tile roof to porch

West tower has 2-light west window with ogee-arched heads to lights and quatrefoil to head, similar bell-chamber openings and battlemented parapet with gargoyles north and south

All windows have hood moulds except those to clerestory, most with carved label stops, Interior: chancel has 2-seat sedilia with double roll-moulded arches, and encaustic-tiled floors

Nave has 3-bay arcades, C13 to north with circular piers and moulded bases and capitals, C19 to south with octagonal piers and polygonal responds

Norman font, circular with palmette ornament in beaded scalloped moulding on C19 base

C19 stain-glass windows to east end and west end of south aisle

Hanoverian Royal Arms, oil on canvas

Monuments: stone wall monument to Gerance James, d.1645, with inscription alluding to Civil War

Slate wall monument to Rev

Horizontal oval white marble wall monument on polished slate background to Rev

White marble wall monument signed by Whiting to Rhoda, wife of Rev

J.T. Flesher who died 1837 with tribute beginning "SHE WAS ZEALOUSLY PIOUS WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM". Similar monument to her youngest son James, d.1838. (Buildings of England, Northanptonshire, 1973, p431-2)

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