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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Pawlett

Somerset

C12, C13, C15, C17, C18 and restored 1915.

Architectural Features

C20 roughcast, freestone dressings, nave with lead-sheeting roof and ornamental lead cresting at eaves (this probably C18), other roofs with plain and double-Roman tiles.

A mix of Early-English and Perpendicular, Norman doorway to south side.

Three stage embattled tower, buttresses with offsets, 2 to west diagonal, some carved heads below parapet, plain 2-light square-headed bell-chamber windows restored 1734, remains of tracery to east, large stair-turret to south with stepped pyramidal stone roof, pyramidal roof of 1900 to tower, large weathercock of 1731

3-light Perpendicular west window, C16/C17 west doorway, studded plank door

Three bay nave with 2 pilaster buttresses to south, 3-light C15 window to north, square head, stopped label, each light with a trefoil head

on south side 2 C15 windows, each of 3-lights, one with pointed head and Perpendicular tracery, the other with square head and each light foiled.

Gabled south porch, C15, 2-stage angle buttresses, outer door opening with moulded head and plain chamfered jambs, ribbed and studded doors, good iron strap hinges

Norman inner doorway of c1120, 3 orders, inner moulding of lozenges, the second with chevron ornament, the outer with carved heads, no columns (this feature probably a re-set chancel arch).

South transept with C13 three-light window to south, lancet with C15 head to east.

North transept with traceried C14 three-light north windows and single-light east window.

Chancel C13, single bay, rebuilt 1779, 2 renewed triple-lancet windows.

Vestry with C15/C16 hollow-moulded 3-light stone mullioned window, narrow single light window to east.

nave with C15 barrel ceiling with thin ribs, replastered 1728

barrel ceiling to porch, C15 again replastered 1728

further C15 barrel roofs to transepts

Chancel and tower arches C15

the arches to transepts plain, C13.

Norman font, C17 tester.

Two C13 piscinae.

Good C15 inner south door, ribbed and studded with the original ironwork.

Upper and lower entrances to rood with stair, C15 rood screen, very richly carved frieze with vines.

Jacobean pulpit

C17 painted texts to north and south aisles

C17 communion rails surrounding altar on three sides, the adjacent panelling C18 with fold-down benches

communion table dated 1678 fragment of C17 carving in the vestry

C17 doors from vestry to chancel and vestry into a C20 boiler room.

Royal Arms dated 1708.

Four principal C19 wall monuments.

Majority of windows with clear glass and leaded lights, iron saddle and stanchion bars

south window to nave with single piece of medieval stained glass

2 late C19 stained glass windows

3 C20 stained glass windows.