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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Hadzor

Worcestershire

Early to mid C14, restored in 1835 and again in 1866, possibly by G.E Street

Architectural Features

C14 stonework evident at base, in windows and square fleuron eaves frieze

The three-light east window has a hood mould with label stops carved like grotesque heads

The nave has a west gallery with cusped pointed arcading, a C19 octagonal stone front and the pulpit has also been retained.

Memorials: between the east end and central window of the north nave wall is a large possibly C14 monument, with a C19 chest tomb in the cusped, wide pointed-arched recess beneath to John Howard Galton, died 1862, set behind ornate cast iron railings.

Above the finialed hood mould to the recess is a niche for a figure with a crocketted gabled and pinnacled head

In the chancel are several C18 and C19 memorials commemorating members of the Galton and Amphlett families.

Glass: chancel windows and east and central window of south nave wall probably by Hardman and include a little C14 glass.