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St John The Baptist

Ebbesbourne Wake

Wiltshire

C14, C17 and restored 1876

Architectural Features

Two-stage C14 west tower has diagonal buttresses with niches, pentagonal stair turret with arrowloops, heavily moulded plinth and blocked cyma-moulded doorway to west, 3- light Perpendicular window over, offset bell stage has 3-light square-headed windows with Tudor-arched lights and pierced decorative louvres, parapet with coping and corner pinnacles

Interior: Three-bay nave has C19 crown post trusses and scissor- rafter roof, tiled floor, windows have restored C13 attached shafts and cusped inner openings

Tower has tall pointed opening from nave with hollow- chamfered arch on foliated corbels, rib-vaulted ceiling springing from corbels with carved beasts and heraldic shields, Tudor-arched chamfered doorway to tower stairs on north

Fine C12 Purbeck marble font, in tower, has central column with 4 shafts supporting square bowl

C19 pews and pulpit

Chancel glass of 1870s to Parham family.

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