Symondsbury Parish Church (st John The Baptist)

Nave, C14 with C15 window insertions to south wall.

Blocked c C14 2-centred window at west end.

C15 windows of 3 lights with super mullions and renewed tracery.

Labels with head stops C15.

South porch, C15, pointed archway with conventional responds.

Embattled parapet with large diagonally set gargoyles.

Central Tower: 3 stages with embattled parapet and gargoyles.

String-courses and embattled parapet with gargoyles.

Chancel: main fabric is c C17 rebuilt with a re-set C15 east window, with renewed mullions.

2 C17 Perpendicular style windows in south wall.

Re-set trefoiled head above it, perhaps C14.

Roof, segmental waggon-type, bossed at the intersections, C15.

Door of wide planks, studded, C17, from porch.

Crossing with C14 pointed arches of two continuous chamfered orders (East and West).

Internal fittings: pulpit, wood, hexagonal with plain fielded panels, C18.

Monuments: tablets in both transepts late 018 and C19.

Font: stone bowl with 4 marbled colonettes with stiff-leaf capitals, C19.

SY4493 : St John the Baptist, Symondsbury: font

© Basher Eyre

Choir stalls, early C20 with medallion-heads to stalls: carved in wood, naturalistic leaves, fish, fruit, animals. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 236 (1).