St John The Baptist

C15, restored 1905.

small Tudor-arched window upper right

plank door with studded fillets within a C13 flat-chamfered pointed surround within the porch.

C13 porch with an almost round-headed entrance with a deep flat chamfer

C13 single-light with ogee-arched head to the left-hand return

C13 lancet to the right-hand return.

Perpendicular 2-light window with a Tudor-arched surround formerly lighting a rood loft to the right

part-glazed door with fillets within a C13 pointed-arched surround with scroll-moulded hood

trefoil- headed C13 lancet at the west end.

C15 three-stage tower with diagonal buttresses

Interior: 2-bay chancel with C15 roof with two moulded tie beams supported on braces from C15 carved stone corbels, three in the form of angels, 2 with brattished decoration

Three-bay nave arcade of wide C13 Transitional round-headed arches of 2 orders.

Possibly medieval lozenge shaped monochrome tiles in black, red and yellow arranged to give a 3-dimensional effect in the chancel.

Trefoil-headed piscina in the south wall of the nave, near the pulpit.

Mutilated C13 piscina with trefoil head and aumbry in the south wall of the chancel.

C15 aumbry on north side of chancel with inset door with finely carved pierced tracery.

Two Tudor roses set into the east wall of the chancel.

Two wooden sculptures, one showing the Virgin and Child with St Anne, the Resurrection, on brattished stone bases projecting from the north and south walls of the chancel respectively, probably C15 Flemish work.

Wooden carving of Christ and a lamb on the north wall.

C14 octagonal limestone font with two trefoil-headed panels to each face at the west end of the nave.

Early C20 pews and early C20 choir stalls with reused moulded medieval rails.

Early C20 octagonal wooden pulpit and screen, both with linenfold panelling, divides the nave from the chancel.

Early C20 choir stalls incorporating some reused C15 panelling.

Late Elizabethan holy table with bulbous legs and carved decoration.

Series of superimposed wall paintings on south wall, the clearest elements being a kneeling lady and the monogram 'I.H.S.'.

Further wall paintings on the nave north wall including a Catherine wheel, traces of a text with decorative border.

Further fragments of wall painting over the nave arcade.

White marble monument to Edward, Earl Ellenborough, died 1871, former Governor General of India, on the north wall of the aisle (q.v. The De la Bere Hotel) to right of blocked entrance to his mortuary chapel.

Small window at the west end of the north aisle with brightly coloured decorative glass with Lord Ellenborough's cypher and coronet.