St John The Baptist

One single order of C13 columns, 2-light Y-tracery window above, with ogee hoodmould forming part of the string course.

Hoodmould with carved stops.

Trusses have carved bosses, and support a single purlin and ridge purlin.

The two bays to the east of the porch have late C13 3-light pointed windows with intersecting tracery beneath hoodmoulds.

Tall 7-light east window, with deeply moulded Dec surround, originally with Dec tracery, but now with moulded major and minor mullions with transoms, inserted after the collapse of the original tracery in 1563.

North aisle with C13 pointed 2-light windows, with quatrefoils to the heads of the mullions.

Font against tower arch, with plain octagonal medieval bowl, set on octagonal stem and stepped base of 1916.

Fluted C18 font near nave north door.

Elaborately carved C17 oak pulpit with hexagonal drum, the facets of which have arcade decoration and which are separated by carved colonnettes, linking carved panelled bands above and below.

The pulpit was lowered in 1917, and the staircase replaced by the present C19 cast-iron spiral stair.

Some remaining parts of C15 choir stalls, incorporated within C19 benches.

Fragments of medieval glass are found in two chancel south wall windows, and one to chancel north wall.

Monuments.

Brass to Thomas Godfrey, d1399, Rector and his brother Richard, in the chancel floor.

Brass, comprising seven plates to John Fanshawe, d1580, together with his wife Margaret, and their children, on chancel north wall.

Alabaster effigy to chest tomb, Mid C15 to Sir Richard Barley, with side and end panel depicting angels holding shields.

The church contains over 120 brasses, monuments and memorials, many of which pave the nave and chancel.