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St John The Baptist

Shottesbrooke

Berkshire

Old tile coped gable roofs

Architectural Features

Tower and spire: two stages with moulded string between and embattled parapet with string below and decayed head-gargoyles at the angles

C14 octagonal font with crocketed and pinnacled buttresses at the angles, panelled sides with trefoiled-ogee heads having crocketed labels surmounted by carved finials

C19 pulpit

Monuments: a fine C14 double tomb recess in the north transept, across the whole of the north wall, cut in chalk and stone, with a panelled base and embattled cornice

Built against the north wall of the chancel is a long alabaster box in the shape of a coffin in which lies the carved figure of a man, wearing a long garment and holding his hands in prayer

On the top are two brasses with inscriptions in Latin

Brasses: large late C14 in floor of nave with the full length figure of a priest and a layman, under two crocketed and finialled canopies having pinnacled buttresses on either side

Of similar date are the remains of a large brass in the floor of the north transept with the figure of a woman in the centre wearing a loose flowing dress

In the north-east corner of the floor in the north transept, a brass inscribed in black letters to Richard Gyll

above the inscription is a figure of a man standing with his hands in prayer, wearing early C16 armour

Also in the floor of the north transept is a brass to Thames Noke d.1567 and his three wives, with an inscription in black letters

Glass: some original pieces in the north-east window of the chancel and in the west window of the same wall is a shield on a background of black and white flowered glass

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