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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Snape

Suffolk

Mainly C15 with some earlier work in nave

Architectural Features

C15 west tower: square, 4 stages, with string course at each stage

3 stage diagonal buttresses, crenellated parapet with flushwork decoration and carved stonework above

gargoyles to base of parapet at centre of east and west faces

3-light C15 west window, restored.

South nave wall with one 2-light and 2 identical 3-light C15 windows, all partially restored

north nave wall with 3 windows with Y tracery, probably late C13/early C14, blocked north doorway.

Good C15 south porch: front with quatrefoil flushwork to plinth and one tier of flushwork panels

arched doorway with carved shields to spandrels

within the spandrels are carved dragons

North and south chancel with largely original one-light and 2-light C15 windows with cinquefoil-headed lights and square hoodmoulds

Fine octogonal font, circa 1500, well carved faces with carvings also to stem and underside of bowl, base with quatrefoil frieze and inscription around the top.

TM3959 : Snape, St John the Baptist: lectern and pulpit

modern pulpit and benches, west gallery of 1845.

TM3959 : Snape, St John the Baptist: lectern and pulpit

© Basher Eyre

In 1982 part of a C13 painted consecration cross was uncovered on the south nave wall.

Graded II* for surviving medieval work.