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St John the Evangelist

St John The Evangelist

Pauntley

Gloucestershire

C12, C13, C14, late C15.

Architectural Features

Moulded string and slight offset above: small, Tudor-arched lancet

Crosses carved into a stone in the door jamb of Pauntley church, along with the date 1795.

Between, to left of centre, boarded south door, flat head, moulding extends around semi- circular tympanum with fish-scale carving.

Crosses carved into a stone in the door jamb of Pauntley church, along with the date 1795.

© Philip Halling

door with Tudor arch in left return built up in brick.

North door boarded with C13 hinges, with half moons.

Scalloped medieval bargeboards.

Semi-circular chancel arch, half-round columns to sides, with volute capitals, nook shafts with carved head capitals: abacus extends across east wall: chevron and nail head moulding to arch.

Tie-beam and collar trusses, curved 'V' struts, curved braces to wallposts below, off carved-head corbels.

Octagonal bowl to font on clustered column, c19 Royal Arms, 1817, in tower base.

Fragments of medieval glass in south chapel south window, more in north windows, including Whittington arms in chancel: last repeated in early C16 glass in tower window.

1543 brasses in south chapel

impressive marble monument to Anne Somerset, died 1764, by Symonds of Hereford, a pyramid above a sarcophagus.

1620 wall monument in nave partly cut by north window.

Whittington's owned Pauntley Court in C14

The current Pauntley Court dates from the late 18th or early 19th century. The Dovecote dates from the 15th century, but apparently remodelled in the 17th century.

C15

The current Pauntley Court dates from the late 18th or early 19th century. The Dovecote dates from the 15th century, but apparently remodelled in the 17th century.

© Bob Embleton

Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London in early C15, a younger son.