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the Beheading of St John the Baptist

The Beheading Of St John The Baptist

Doddington

Kent

C12, extended south c.1200

Architectural Features

C15, restored 1873 to 1874 and 1907 to 1908.

C15 Perpendicular

C14 'Y' tracery windows in nave and aisle, with 3 lancets in south chapel south wall and 2 large eastern lancets.

INTERIOR: at the west end of the nave, blocked chamfered west doorway, west window and part blocked rere-arch of C12 window.

C15 rere-arch to north-west window of chancel taken to floor level, blocking earlier lancet, to enclose stone reading desk and aumbry, perhaps a confessional.

Fittings: Chancel with round headed pisina, cusped aumbry C15 bench with half-poppy heads used as sedilia, with C15 screen to chapel or 22 lights, the end coved to form a canopy over the sedilia

C15 wooden reading desk with poppy heads.

Octagonal Jacobean pulpit, C15 octagonal font with C17 wood cone cover.

Wall paintings, in chancel on lancet responds large C13 figures.

Some fragmentary C13 glass.

Monuments: South chapel with medieval slabs on floor incised with Latin crosses, 1 with brass inscription to Francis Bourne, d.1615.

Wall monument to George Swift, d.1732, of white marble, with grooved Doric pilasters, cornice, with enriched frieze and broken pediment clasping vase.

Small black plaque on wall behind pulpit to John Adye, d.1612, with scrolled base and cornice with achievement over. chest tomb .