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Saint John The Baptist

Wrestlingworth

Bedfordshire

C13, C14 and C15, restored 1823-30

Architectural Features

Chancel: rebuilt C14, shortened C19

N and S elevations each have a C15 2- light window with 4-centred head

Nave: 4-bay pointed-arched arcades to both sides, N one later C13 with round columns, S one C14 with octagona columns

C15 clerestory has 3 windows to each side, all of 2 lights and square-headed

N aisle: C13, reworked C15

Pointed-arched doorway reset from C15 S porch (demolished C19), with carved spandrels under square head

S aisle: C14, reworked C19

Blocked C14 pointed-arched doorway, partly below external ground level

W tower: C15

Nave roof dated 1820 but has imported C15 angel figures to tie beams

C15 octagonal font, carving apparently C19

N aisle E window contains C14 glass, brought from Yorkshire, showing St Edward, St Oswald, St Dunstain and St Sebald

S aisle has polychrome marble wall monument to Sir Patrick Hume, 1627, showing kneeling figures of husband and wife facing each other across a prayer-desk

Nave has brasses to a knight c.1430, a lady c.1490, to Edward Cockayne and wife Elizabeth, 1525, and to William Cokyn, 1527 and 2 wives

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