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St John The Baptist

Lea Marston

Warwickshire

Early C14 nave extended and provided with a porch in the C15, restored, partially rebuilt, and added to in 1876-7. Medieval dressed freestone blocks and C19 random rubble and ashlar

Architectural Features

plain tile roofs with stone coped ranges

Pointed west window of 2 trefoil-headed lights with Geometrical style tracery and a scroll-moulded dripstone with stops carved as heads

Nave: early C14 but heavily restored in the C19

2 C14 buttresses to the south side both of 2 stages with gables

The nave was extended to the west in the C15 and the gabled south porch is of this date

C14 pointed south door of 2 moulded orders with a returned hood mould

2 north windows with C19 tracery of early to mid-C14 character

Interior: King-post roof over the nave, probably mostly C17

Fittings: C19 octagonal font with traceried panels

Elaborate C19 pulpit with extravagantly carved panels

C19 stalls with carved poppyheads

C19 wooden reredos, panelled and traceried with patterned wall tiles to each side

Wooden chest inscribed: "Joseph Spink/Church Mardin/AND FECIT 1724". Monuments: on the floor of the chancel is a heavily eroded incised slab, probably medieval

A pair of grave slabs on the chancel floor: Mary Adderley, died 1707 and Arden Adderley, died 1727, both with carved skulls. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p332

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