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Architectural Features

C15, restored in C19.

Plastered flint and pebble rubble with dressings of limestone and clunch, roofed with lead and handmade red clay tiles.

Doorway in N vestry late C12, reset.

The Nave was rebuilt in the late C14, the Chancel, N aisle

W tower rebuilt in mid-Cl5, N vestry, N chapel and S porch added mid-C15.

The Chancel is mainly C15, and has an E window of 3 cinquefoiled lights under a 4-centred head, with moulded external reveals and label.

Further W is a late C14/early C15 arcade of 2 bays with 2-centred arches of 2 hollow-chamfered orders

the capitals and bases are cut back for a rood-screen

The N Vestry has in the E wall a late C15 window of 2 cinquefoiled lights with tracery in a 4-centred head.

In the N wall is a late C12 doorway, reset and blocked

the eastern is C19 except the C15 splays and rear-arch

the western window is late C14, of 2 cinquefoiled and sub-cusped lights with elaborate tracery in an acute 2-centred head, with moulded external reveals.

In the W wall is a late C15 segmental-pointed arch of 2 hollow-chamfered orders, the outer continuous, the inner resting on semi- octagonal attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases

The Nave has a late C15 N arcade of 4 bays

In the S wall are 2 late C15 windows, each of 3 cinquefoiled lights with tracery in a 4-centred head.

Further W is the late C14 S doorway with moulded jambs and 2-centred arch, and moulded label with 2 mutilated head-stops.

The clerestorey has on both sides 4 late C15 windows, each of 2 cinquefoiled lights in a 3-centred head

The wallplates have spiral vine-leaf carving.

At half-bay intervals there are intermediate rafters with stub hammerbeams ending in tenons for angels or other carved figures, missing.

Hewett dates this roof from the first half of the C15 The N aisle has the easternmost bay of the N walls canted out on plan, probably to provide more altar space against the E wall.

In the E wall is a simple C15 window of one cinquefoiled light.

In the N wall are 2 mid to late C15 windows

Further W is the C15 N doorway, blocked, with double-chamfered jambs, 4-centred arch and moulded label.

In the W wall is a C15 window of 2 cinquefoiled lights with tracery in a 4-centred head.

The W tower is mid to late C15, of 3 stages with a crenellated parapet, SE turret stair and moulded plinth.

The S porch is mid to late C15, and has a 2-centred outer archway of 2 hollow-chamfered orders

In the Chancel there is an indent of a missing brass of a priest, C15.

The font is octagonal with plain bowl, stem panelled on 5 sides, the others plain, with moulded base, C15.

In the E window of the N aisle there are fragments of C15

In the Chancel there is a piscina with chamfered jambs, trefoiled head, projecting basin and foiled drain, C14, reset.

In the Vestry there is another, with chamfered jambs, pointed head, foiled drain, C15, basin cut away.

The pulpit is octagonal with panelled sides, fluted frieze and moulded cornice, early C17.

The C15 screen under the chancel arch retains 4 close lower panels, each divided by a twisted shaft and having an elaborate traceried head with foliated spandrels and a band of quatrefoils at the foot

In the Nave, E of the S doorway, is a stoup with chamfered jambs and pointed head, C15, the bowl broken off.

There are 5 bells, the first and second by Richard Bowler, 1600

1601, the third by Robert Ridere, the fourth by Charles Newman, 1695, the fifth inscribed 'Sancte Johannes ora pro nobis, PW'.

There are several medieval graffiti in various parts of the church, of which the most remarkable is a C15 poem on the S respond of the N chapel arch.