St John The Baptist

Perpendicular windows, C17 porch, timber-framed belfry rebuilt 1883.

At St. John the Baptist's church, Tredington.

© Jonathan Billinger

Red tile roof.

C20 double plank doors (now within porch) within a round-headed C12 arch reduced in height and width in dressed limestone C20.

Originally this church, which is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was a 12th century chapel of ease to Tewkesbury. The long chancel was rebuilt in the 13th and 14th centuries; the timber-framed chancel was built in 1884 and the pyramid roof added in 1935-6.

© Philip Halling

The C12 arch is of 2 orders both with chevron decoration with alternating limestone and sandstone voussoirs.

C12 north door with a badly eroded C12 green sandstone tympanum, depicting a sacred figure holding a staff and another object flanked by a pair of kneeling figures holding books.

Rectangular probably C15 window to left set back within a deep reveal with trefoil-headed lights with tracery at the top.

Diamond leaded panes with some corners of early window glass.

Pointed 2-light window to left with cinquefoil-headed lights and carved spandrels.

Chancel north wall: one C13 trefoil-headed lancet towards the west end.

Two 2-light pointed windows one with Perpendicular tracery, one tall narrow round-headed C12 window.

Porch with large plank door at front within a pointed flat-chamfered surround with a datestone dated and initialled '1624/CB' (possibly Charles Bick) on datestone in gable.

Wide low C12 chancel arch of 2 orders with a flat- chamfered impost hood with finely carved foliate decoration.

C17 limestone font at west end of nave.

Octagonal possibly late C18 oak pulpit with blind C17 style arcading.

Pews probably of the same date with carving similar to that on pulpit at the end of each pew.

C17 communion rail with turned balusters.

C17 altar table.

C19 finely carved limestone reredos.

Monuments

C19 white and black marble monument to John Bick on the chancel south wall.

One to Prudence, wife of Charles Bick, died 1639 with incised rosette another ledger to Charles, son of Charles Bick, died 1641.

Hatchment with the Surman family arms on west wall of the nave.