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St John The Baptist

Burcombe

Wiltshire

Saxon, C13, C15, tower rebuilt 1667, restored 1859 by T.H. Wyatt

Architectural Features

South side of chancel has two pairs of cusped ogee lancets, east end has C19 plate tracery window, Saxon long-and-short work to corners of east end, north side has attached C19 vestry with cusped lancets and pointed doorway

North aisle of 1859 has three C16-style 2- light windows and one single-light, all with square hoodmoulds, quatrefoil to west end

late C19 C16-style panelling in chancel

C19 stone pulpit with open arcading

Restored C12 cylindrical stone font in nave

Stained glass windows in chancel of1880s and 1890s

Monuments include a segmental eared tablet to Matthew Pitts died 1746 and a marble to Edmund Pitts died 1770 in nave, marble in north aisle to Ruth Moore died 1806 with fluted pilasters and frieze.

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