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St John The Baptist

Fifield

Oxfordshire

Early C13 with C14 tower and porch

Architectural Features

Contemporary octagonal stone spire with ball finial and later brass weathercock

South side has small early C14 two-light window with reticulated tracery and hoodmould high up to west

C14 porch is gabled with foliated finial to apex

Crenellated sides with weathered carved heads and stepped coped verges to front

Two pairs of early C13 chamfered lancets with hoodmoulds to south and 2 contemporary chamfered lancets on north

Early C14 three-light east window has reticulated tracery and hoodmould

Pointed C14 south doorway has continuous wave-moulding and a concave hoodmould

Early C13 chancel arch is broad, low, pointed and double-chamfered with semi-circular responds, north with nail-tread ornament and south with moulded capital

Apart from C15 octagonal font with 2 blind trefoil-headed arches to each face fittings and furnishings are late C19 or later

Stained glass

Reassembled fragments in south-west chancel window (formerly in east window) comprise C13 shield of Zouche of Harrington and a shield of Barton quartering the quarterly arms of Radcliffe for John Barton who married Cecilia Radcliffe in 1486: also fragments of C14 foliage designs and 19 late C15 quarries

Further reassembled fragments of C14 stained glass in Perpendicular-style window in north wall of nave

Monument

Brass plate to Mary Bray (d.1620) and her 9 children on north wall of chancel. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p603) [2534]

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