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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Tisbury

Wiltshire

Late C12, C13, C14, C15, C16, tower rebuilt 1762, mid C19 restoration

Architectural Features

Two-storey C13 north porch with double chamfered archway on pair of attached shafts, one with multi-scalloped capitals, C19 wrought- iron double gates, first floor has single lancet, quatrefoil to west, leaded light to east and blocking course to gabled roof, brick stack

North aisle has two late C14 two-light square-headed windows to right of porch and one to left

C19 vestry to left has C14-style window and blocking course

extended to left with C14-style windows and pointed doorway

South aisle has three 2-light square-headed C14 windows and one small above double-chamfered pointed door, buttresses and C19 stack to right for vestry, octagonal stair turret to left

North and south clerestories have four 2-light C15 square-headed windows

C13 lower stage of crossing tower has attached angle shafts and Y-tracery louvred windows with hoodmoulds, upper stage of 1762 replaces spire

C15 wagon roof to nave has three hammer beam trusses with angels

Four-bay aisle arcades, late C14 with attached shafts and hollow moulded piers to moulded pointed arches, north aisle ceiling with inscription dated 1535, south aisle dated 1616, both with names of donors and church wardens, moulded beams and bosses

Shouldered doorway to upper room of porch to left of north door, Royal Arms of George III over

Late C12 crossing with roll-moulded and chamfered arches on attached shaft responds with plain trumpet-scallop capitals, quadripartite rib-vault

North transept became the Lady Chapel in 1299, remodelled C14 with image niche in centre of east window flanked by tall niches with crockets and ogee arches, piscina in right one, hollow-chamfered niche in north wall, wagon roof with three cambered tie-beams

C14 ogee piscina on south wall

Good C17 pews and choir stalls throughout church with shell-lunettes to bench-ends

C17 hexagonal pulpit with arabesque carving

Square stone font on five shafts

possibly C13 and restored

with C17 font cover - at west end

Early C20 stained glass in south aisle

later C20 glass in east window

Monuments: Good collection of marble floor tablets in chancel to Arundells of Wardour with relief carved arms

brass on floor to Lawrance Hyde of West Hatch died 1590