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St John The Baptist

Wistow

Cambridgeshire

C14 part of south wall of chancel and part of south wall of south aisle.

Architectural Features

Late C15 or early C16 nave, chancel, north and south aisle.

Mid-late C16 west tower of Barnack stone and rubblestone.

Large grotesque gargoyles.

Moulded stone parapet With two grotesque gargoyles.

C14 door and ironwork restored.

Three beast and grotesque gargoyles.

Repaired C14 door of feathered battens with original ironwork.

C12 fragments of earlier building in north wall.

Stone parapet with gargoyles at north-east and south-east corners.

South wall of chancel has one similar window and one C14 window of two trefoil ogee lights in square head with window continued below transome.

One C14 small doorway in pointed arch.

Two-centred arches of two moulded orders, outer continuous. inner on attached shafts with moulded capitals carved with paterae.

Roof of nave modern with four late C15 or early C16 king-post roof trusses on carved stone corbels.

Carved figures to wall posts of main tie beams and ends of intermediate tie beams.

C19 chancel interior, except for late C15 or early C16 piscinae and sediliae.

C15 tower arch screen, upper part originally part of rood screen, lower modern.

Late C15 or early C16 porches screening south aisle, with modern restoration.

C13 stone font.

C15 stained glass in west window of south aisle, originally in east window of chancel. "The Annunciation"

C15 poppy head pew ends incorporated into modern reading desk.

Late C17 marble wall monument above south doorway.