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St. John the Baptist

St. John The Baptist

Baston

Lincolnshire

Early C13, c.1403, C15, C16, chancel rebuilt c.1860.

Architectural Features

3 stage ashlar C15 tower, having clasping buttresses, chamfered string courses, embattled parapet with angle pinnacles.

C15 north aisle with 5 three light windows, single at the ends and 3 at the sides, all having cusped ogee heads and 4 centred surrounds.

C16 clerestory of 4 paired lights in chamfered surrounds, and plain parapet.

The C14 coursed limestone rubble south aisle has a fleuron frieze to the parapet

a C15 3 light panel traceried east window.

Also in the west is a plinth with quatrefoils, a 3 light early C15 window with above a sunk quatrefoil and to the gable a gabled single bellcote.

This work may belong to c.1403 when a chapel to St. Mary was created. c.1403 gabled south porch having wave moulded and pointed outer arch with above an elaborate trefoil headed niche with side pinnacles and crocketed ogee canopy.

4 bay C13 double chamfered nave arcades with octagonal piers and responds, moulded capitals.

Tall C15 tower arch with moulded head, embattled octagonal capitals and side shafts with bell moulded bases.

In the south aisle a C15 cusped headed piscina and a C15 cambered tie beam roof with moulded principals matching that to the nave.

Chancel arch is early C13 with roll moulded and chamfered head and annular capitals with hob nailing.

Fittings are all C19 and C20, except for the C13 octagonal plain tub font on square base.

Fine C14 oak iron bound churchwardens' chest with curved feet.