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St. John the Baptist

St. John The Baptist

Wadworth

South Yorkshire

Gargoyles beneath embattled parapet with eight crocketed pinnacles.

Architectural Features

South door, within porch, has roll-moulded pointed arch with nailhead decoration and hoodmould with carved-head stops

Five-light east window with intersecting tracery and hoodmould with weathered head-carved stops.

Clerestorey windows in ashlar walling are of four Tudor-arched lights

ashlar parapet and coped east gable with corner pinnacles and gargoyles.

Separately-roofed C14 south chapel has chamfered plinth, moulded band and offset diagonal buttresses

Chancel arch: of 1829, double-chamfered with corbelled inner order and hoodmould with head-carved stops.

South chapel: sedilia and piscina with cusped ogee heads.Font: C15, octagonal with quatrefoils beneath the rim.

Monuments: semi-effigial, twin grave cover to west of font has heads and crossed hands carved in sunken recesses.

Beneath east arch into south chapel is a fine alabaster table tomb to Edmund Fitzwilliam and wife Katherine: knight with head on helm and feet on dog set to right of his wife whose head rests on a tasseled cushion, angels with shields to the side panels.

To its south another semi-effigial slab with carved recesses showing head and feet beneath ogee canopies.

Against south wall of chapel another effigial slab of huntsman with sword and horn, probably C14.

Various early C19 wall monuments in south chapel

Brass: on south respond of chancel arch to John Pierrepoint N. Pevsner, B.O.E, 1967 P. E. Routh, Medieval Effigial Alabaster Tombs in Yorkshire 1976,, p.lZ9.