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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Northorpe CP

Lincolnshire

C16 2 stage tower has plinth with chamfered moulding, moulded string course, moulded parapet string course with 2 grotesque chutes to north and south only.

Architectural Features

Over the door, slightly offset to the left, is a 3 light C16 window with panel tracery, hood mould with label stops and concave moulded jambs.

The clerestorey has two 31ight C16, trefoil headed windows with flat heads with much Cl9 restoration.

There is a small blocked doorway with hood mould and human mask label stops and a 3 light early C14 window with geometric tracery having a C19 hood mould with human mask label stops.

The C16 east window has 3 lights with trefoil heads under a very flat 4 centred arch.

The south face which has 2 two light C19 windows with trefoil heads and a fine C14 door with traceried woodwork in the side panels and head, the middle of the door is C19.

Inside are 3 bay north and south arcades, late C12, with circular piers and square bases and abaci and single plain arches.

To the west are half bays of early C13 character with simply moulded chamfered imposts and hood moulds.

The C15 nave roof restored c.1905, retains extensive C15 fabric consisting of moulded tie beams, purlins, principal rafters and ridge having 4 original decorated roof bosses and C20 bosses at the intersections.

The C13 chancel arch has engaged octagonal responds with curling corbels, and is double chamfered.

Stained glass in chancel is late C19 and C20.

The altar rails are C17 fine splat balusters and winged lions' heads to either side of the central opening

In the chancel are 2 C17 coffin stools.

The pulpit is C18 with raised and fielded panels in oak.

The pews, other fittings and font date from 1905.

A prayer desk at the west end is also of C17 splat balusters and near it is an iron bound chest.

Monuments: fragments of 2 C15 inscribed recumbent slabs at the west end of the nave.

Built into the sill of the south east window is a C13 stepped base cross slab.

In the chancel are brass plates inscribed to members of the Monson family: William Monson, d. 1638, Anthony Monson, d. 1648, the latter with a brass plate showing an achievement of arms, the matrix of this brass is formed from a Medieval altar stone having 5 consecration crosses.