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St John

St John

Laughton-en-le-Morthen

South Yorkshire

C12 origin, nave of several Medieval builds, C15 tower, chancel and porch rebuilt 1709, C19 restoration.

Architectural Features

Embattled parapet with waterspouts and head-carved gargoyles to north.

resited C12 arch to south door within has shafts with carved capitals and 2-order arch with hoodmould

small effigial carving in east wall, cross-slab with shears in west wall.

C15 clerestorey with three 3-light windows having cusped lights beneath Tudor arches, tracery of bays 2 and 3 undergoing replacement at time of resurvey.

bowtel-moulded arches of 2 orders, arches of a further western bay now truncated by C15 tower.

C14 double-chamfered arch from chancel into north aisle chapel has head-carved corbels.

Nave roof probably C15 with bosses to cambered tie beams, C19 chancel roof.

Font: octagonal, Perpendicular with traceried panels and castellated top.

Grave slabs in floor: C15 cross slab with English inscription

another slab in chancel dated 1633

several others with C17 and C18 dates.

Remarkable coped grave cover (now in 2 pieces) has foliage carved in high relief (illustration in Ryder, p98).

P. Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, South Yorks County Council County Archaeology Monograph No 2, 1982, (pp97,98).

Detailed survey report in South Yorkshire Ancient Monuments and Sites Record, Sheffield, Primary Index No 278.