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St John

West Grimstead

Wiltshire

C13 to C18

Architectural Features

Chancel has two round-arched chamfered windows to south side and group of three stepped cusped lancets to east, east window of north aisle has 2-light square- headed C16 window

North aisle has one 2-light square-headed C16 window and blocked pointed door to west, with inserted window with wooden Y-tracery

West end of north aisle has 2-light square- headed C16 window

2-bay nave has double-chamfered pointed north arcade on cylindrical columns of early C13

Unusual roof trusses nave arch-braced tie-beams with central carved bosses, on corbels, with curved principals which bow-out to take purlins

Fittings: Fine Jacobean wooden pulpit with flat arabesque carving

Royal Arms of Queen Anne on south wall on nave

Cylindrical limestone font of C13

East window has signed stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne of London, 1900.

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