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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

East Markham

Nottinghamshire

C15 angle buttressed tower of 3 stages with bands, 8 crocketed pinnacles and 8 gargoyles.

Architectural Features

Within a cinque foiled canopy with 3 finials is a standing, worn figure.

The west wall of the north aisle has a single arched C15 3 light window with cusped panel tracery with hood mould and single human head label stop to the left.

The 4 bay north wall with 3 gargoyles has 3 similar windows with hood moulds and human head label stops.

C15 chancel has in the north wall 2 large gargoyles

2 C14 style arched windows each with 3 arched and cusped lights, hood mould and human head label stops, the left window lacks the right label stop.

The south chancel has 2 large gargoyles and 3 C14 style arched windows each with 3 arched and cusped lights, hood mould and human head label stops.

In the east wall of the south aisle is a single arched 3 light C15 window with cusped panel tracery, hood mould and human head label stops.

The 4 bay south wall with 3 gargoyles has 3 similar windows with hood moulds and human head label stops.

Second bay from the left is the diagonally buttressed porch which has a single ridge cross, 2 crocketed pinnacles and single gargoyles to the east and west sides.

Over is a niche with a figure standing under a double arch decorated with finials.

The timbered roof has C15 bosses.

The west wall has a single C15 arched 3 light window with cusped panel tracery.

The clerestory corresponds to the north but has 3 worn gargoyles.

Early C14 double chamfered chancel arch, the inner chamfer with moulded impost, hood mould and human head label stops over.

C17 altar rails with turned balusters.

C17 panelled and decorated pulpit and C17 alms box with iron fittings.

Ashlar font with flying buttresses rising from a base decorated with fleuron, probably an inverted C14 font, supporting the bowl, 1686, with C17 conical, decorated canopy.

The east bay of the south aisle has the restored and reduced C15 chancel screen with panel tracery.

In the south aisle is the base of a C17 altar table and in the north aisle the top of an ashlar altar table.

In the nave is a litany desk part constructed with C16 bench end with decoratively carved head.

There is a large C17 chest with iron fittings.

Monuments: in the chancel is the alabaster tomb of John (Judge) Markham, d.l409.

In the south aisle is a fine brass, 1419, to Dame Millicent Meryng figuring a lady dressed in medieval costume.

Beside the north wall is a C13 coffin lid with worn effigy.

There are several C17 and C18 floor slabs.

In the east window of the south aisle are some fragments of C15 glass.