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Saint John Baptist

Saint John Baptist

Pitney

Somerset

C13 Chancel, C14 tower, rest rebuilt 1853 and 1874.

Architectural Features

Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings, plain clay tile roofs between stepped coped gables with cross finials.

Chancel C13, rebuilt 1853: stepped plinth, no buttresses

Nave, rebuilt 1874, has bay buttresses with offsets on north side, with C13 style cusped paired lancet windows with quatrefoil over, transitional between plate tracery and reticulation

all C19: south wall has two 3-light C15 style traceried windows with square-stop arched labels, between them simple porch with cinquefoil cusped outer arch and plain chamfered pointed inner arch.

South transept C15 origins

3-light south window with C15 tracery set in hollowed recess probably original, but the east window, 2-light to match, probably C19.

Tower of 3 stages, probably all C15, although of earlier proportions

plinth, offset strings, angled corner buttresses 2 stages high, crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles and gargoyles

third stage has C15 2-light traceried windows without labels, one each face, with pierced stone baffles.

Nave has arch-braced collar and kingpost roof, unplastered walls, and mostly C19 furniture, except for an elaborately decorated pulpit of C17

of tiaber on a stone base, and a lectern with C17 panelling

octagonal font with plain bowl on moulded base with Tudor roses in undercoving, C14/C15, with a cover in C17 style.