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St John the Evangelist

St John The Evangelist

Oxborough

Norfolk

Medieval and later.

Architectural Features

Bedingfeld chantry chapel founded in 1496.

North aisle with three-light C14 west window with mouchettes.

Six surviving two-light late Medieval clearstorey windows.

South wall with three surviving two-light late Medieval windows.Chancel with two three-light panel-traceried north windows, a restored five-light panel-traceried east window and a similar three-light south window.

Chantry chapel with one partly blocked three-light panel-traceried east window and three C16 three-light windows without tracery beneath four-centred arches.

Westernmost bay of chantry chapel in flint with a restored three-light late Medieval window.

C15 sanctus bellcote with badly weathered blind tracery.

Late Medieval north aisle roof with moulded principals and purlins and spandrel tracery.

Interior: chancel with blocked C16 arcade of two bays formerly opening into chantry chapel.

Four-centred arches and carved polygonal capitals.

Late Medieval arch-braced roof.

Piscina cum sedilia in clunch with miniature rib vaulting and carved decoration including blind tracery and a frieze of angels.

Retains original arch-braced and roll-moulded roof with carved spandrels.

Three carved wall posts with seated figures beneath canopies.

Two celebrated early C16 terra cotta tombs Three other marble monuments of high quality.