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Saint John the Baptist

Saint John The Baptist

East Ayton

North Yorkshire

Early C12 nave and chancel arch

Architectural Features

C12 tower with rebuilt upper stages

C13 chancel altered in C15 and partly rebuilt C18

C15 windows and buttresses to nave

south porch of 1634 (on datestone)

Gabled porch with flat-headed opening contains a C12 round-arched doorway of a single order with beakhead moulding.

Two C15 two-light flat-arched windows to right and one to left.

C13 lancet to right.

Interior: early C12 semicircular chamfered chancel arch with plain imposts.

Tower arch has stepped imposts but was probably altered to the present crude ogee in C15.

C12 tub font has moulded arcade in shallow relief of semicircular arches on columns with capitals and bases.