St John The Baptist

All windows of restored Perpendicular type, except the east windows of the aisles altered C17 to provide for monuments, east chancel window reputedly of l857.

to the nave a plaster ceiling dated 1636, ribbed with pendants the tower with a fan-vault

octagonal Perpendicular font

A fine example of a Perpendicular style octagonal work of about 1450. It has an interesting tale: the ornate angel decorations were covered up with plaster during the Commonwealth, when Puritan morals caused many such artifacts to be destroyed. It was only later when an unwitting Sexton picked bits of the plaster off to reveal the fine details.

© Neil Owen

some remains of wall painting

brass in north transept to Roger Harper and wife of 1493

C17 bier in south transept

painted C17 chest in south transept

many large wall monuments, particularly to Prowse family who have connections with Compton House(qv), that to south chancel aisle with a kneeling figure of Anne Prowse of 1668, in north chancel aisle William Prowse, depicted as a three-quarter figure in an oval niche of 1670

ST4354 : Axbridge: The church of St John the Baptist; The monument of 1670 to William Prowse

© Michael Garlick

further fine monuments to Thomas Welsh of 1678, J Andrews of 1720, Johns Tuthil of 1716 and Thomas Prowse of 1767

further C17 chest in north aisle

small C17 reading desk

painting to south transept of Christ showing his wounds, probably C15 though much restored and over-painted

Many further lesser well monuments of C18 and C19.

Stained glass to east window.