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St John

St John

Elberton

Gloucestershire

C14 tower, the rest mostly rebuilt in 1858.

Architectural Features

Crossing has higher pointed chamfered arches to east and west, lower to north and south, squints to north and south, small door to north opens to rood stair, with upper door in north side, flat chamfered ribbed ceiling with single leaf carved on each corbel.

Chancel has stone carving to east wall below window made up of small squares each with a leaf, all windows have slender jamb shafts of Purbeck marble with foliate capitals as imposts for moulded head, string course below windows, with rosettes at east end, south vestry door in segmental pointed head has foliate stop ending string course to west, 3 bay roof has pierced quatrefoils below cornice, moulded ribs dividing into 9 panels with decorative bosses.

Fittings: Norman bowl font, damaged and disused.

C16 carved altar table.

Pair of C17 carved oak sanctuary chairs in chancel, from Aust church.

Octagonal font and pulpit contemporary with rebuilding.

Early mediaeval stone coffin in south aisle, found at time of rebuilding in the aisle wall.

Early C19 marble monument in south aisle with draped urn, to Thomas Johnson 1829 by Greenway of Bristol and Downend.