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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Bramley Vale

Derbyshire

Norman lancet to the west, its round-arched head with zigzag decoration.

Architectural Features

Blocked C11 west doorway has an incised lintel with a scene of St George and the Dragon.

INTERIOR: two-bay C11 north arcade of plain unmoulded round arches and with chamfered impost bands.

Monument in the chapel to Anne Keighley, wife of the first Earl of Devonshire, dated 1627.

On corbels rising from below the cornice, five free-standing allegorical figures.

On the floor in front of the monument is a black slab inscribed to Thomas Hobbes, the philosopher, a protege of the Cavendishes, who died at Hardwick in 1679.

Medieval stained glass dated 1527 in the chapel east window, depicting the Crucifixion.

Plain robust pews, pulpit, choir stalls, readers desk etc., probably by Butterfield.

Wooden eagle lectern.

C14 nave roof, with big tie beams and coarse trefoil tracery above.

Sandstone and Hopton Wood stone font, given in 1887 and by Butterfield, with inlaid circular motifs.

Next to it is a plain circular font bowl.

Two C18 monuments in the north aisle, one a cartouche with date of death 1703.

In the aisle several C19 stained glass windows, and one in the north aisle of 1933 by HHB of Nottingham.