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St John The Baptist

Hagley

Worcestershire

C13 origins, partly rebuilt 1754-56 by Sanderson Miller, north aisle and arcade added in 1828 by Rickman, partly rebuilt and remodelled again in 1858-65 by Street.

Architectural Features

south aisle includes some medieval masonry: angled corner buttresses and central south buttress with offsets

there is an oval early C19 memorial situated west of the central buttress.

the latter window has a transom below which is a Virgin and Child relief with flanking early C20 memorials.

Interior: four bay nave arcades of two chamfered orders on octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases (some C13 masonry in south arcade): similar chancel and narrow tower arch, both with inner order on colonnettes.

East window has slender nookshafts and hood mould with angel stops.

Octagonal stone font with arcaded stem and cusped frieze around basin.

Circular pulpit with cusped arcading, marble panels and foliated detail probably by Street.

Finialed tomb recess in north aisle contains C13 coffin lid decorated with a foliated cross.

South aisle has a piscina and at the east end is a carved panel with an animal relief of probable Norman date found in 1984, (this suggests that there was an even earlier church on the site).

Memorials: in tower numerous C18 and C19 memorials, mainly to Lyttleton family

Glass: east window and one window in both aisles by Kempe