St John The Evangelist

Chancel has rough plinth, fragments of cill course and an eaves course of C11 character

single C14 traceried 4 light East window under pointed label with headstops

similar 3-light to East bay South side, a tall lancet possibly C11 adapted and a lower 2-light long lancet style window, uncertain date: some traces of Saxon/early Norman arcading of two types between the windows at high level.

At St John's church and dating from the eleventh or twelfth century

© Martin Bodman

C12 style windows in East

West walls, and a 2-light C13 style window in South wall, under a trefoil gable vent.

Nave rebuilt and extended 1867-69 in C15 style, diagonal corner buttresses

to second bay from East a tall restored Cll/C12 doorway of two orders, with derivative Corinthian columns, roll moulds to arches, double billet moulding to impost and stylised chevron and billet label

West front a copy of the C15 original, with arched doorway under square label, foliated spandrils, flanked by statue niches

above a 5-light transomed traceried window under arched label with angel-stops, a cinquefoil gable vent.

North East chapel of three bays, two as the nave, but East bay has small restored C11 window, in centre bay plinth a low 4-centre arch to crypt

Tower, C11 in lower parts, two plain stages above roof line are mainly C14/C15

other faces of this stage blank: upper stage, with offsets and small corner buttresses, string courses, crenellated parapet, corner pinnacles and gargoyles, and 2 light C15 traceried windows with pointed labels to each face, massive low buttress to South East corner, and on South West corner an octagonal turret of Saxon/Norman character of 4 stages, hipped stone roof, circular shafts in corners against nave and South transept for two stages

the walls have traces of C11 openings, with a cinquefoil rere-arch to the tall South lancet, with a C15 arcade to North East chapel, and in East wall, flanking the window two statue recesses containing figures by John Skelton

C15 chancel screen with delicate traceried panels in highly moulded frames, foliated cornice.

North East chapel remodelled but retains C15 archway into North aisle.

The crossing mostly C11 work, with 5 circular shafts to each jamb, heavy cushion and roll bases and highly carved bowl capitals with Celtic decoration

semi circular arches retained to transepts, but chancel and nave arches adapted in C14/C15

elaborate C15 panelled roof over.

North aisle and nave are mainly C19 rebuilds, The South transept has an arched recess with a C14 female stone effigy, and a piscina nearby.

C14 stoup in the nave by the south door, Fittings include C12 font

hatchment dated 1662 in the North aisle