St John The Evangelist

Nave parapet with pierced interlocking mouchette pattern, south aisle and porch with parapet and ball flower string course with prominent gargoyles.

SO7403 : Slimbridge, St. John's Church: Gargoyle 3

© Michael Garlick

Good two-leaf plank doors with strap hinges, inner porch doorway round-headed and with continuous trefoil leaf carved surround.

Three-stage tower, pinnacles at 45°, open C14 parapet, octagonal spire with lunettes on cardinal faces.

West face of tower three-light window flanked by niches linked by drip, over C19 door, at second stage triple niche and various carved shields, above string elongated quatrefoil in rectangular panel above square clock face, two-light C14 baby light.

Series twelve carbed angels heads in north aisle and sixteen south aisle.

pointed barrel plastered ceiling with C19 carved cornice.

Some remains of medieval glass in east window, north aisle.

Floors quarry tile, C19 pews.

Jacobean hexagonal pulpit, oak eagle lectern, lead font bowl of 1664 on stone base, some medieval tiles.

David Verey suggests that it is "Probably the best example in the county of the Early Gothic Style of the C13". (Verey, D. p 339) See also good photographic record of capitals in NMR.

The village church of St John the Evangelist dates from the early 13th century and is a grade I listed building.

© Lewis Clarke