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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Hungarton

Leicestershire

C14/C15, restored C19.

Architectural Features

C14 tower of 3 stages with plinth, angle buttresses, W window with C19 stained glass, small 1-lights to SW stair, clock face to W and 4 2-light bell openings.

Above is a frieze with fleurons, heads and central gargoyles, then battlements and recessed crocketted spire with small quatrefoil lucarnes.

2 have stained glass, of 1937, and 1867.

C14 chancel has windows with restored Curvilinear tracery.

Stained glass of 1856-7.

1 S window with stained glass of 1822, rest with mid or later C19 stained glass.

C15 S porch with many moulded doorway.

Inside are C15 parclose screen to Ashby Chapel in S aisle, square Norman font decorated with concentric lozenges, 6 hatchments, and wall monuments.

These include those to G. Ashbie, 1653

Dorothy Ashby, 1681

and Francis Cave de Baggrave, 1568 and wife.