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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Midsomer Norton

Somerset

C15 west tower (upper stages C17).

Architectural Features

Three stage west tower, lower stage probably C15 freestone, upper stages C17 ashlar.

Norman font: plain chalice-type with scallop band below rim.

A number of C19 fittings, including pulpit, retained.

In the tower, remains of a C13 wooden effigy of a knight.

A number of memorials especially on north wall: parents of Charles Harbard, dated 1678, broken segmental pediment with Ionic pilasters on angel busts and with swagged sides.

Several memorials of the Savage family (of Norton Hall) especially 2 C18 ones and 2 Gothick ones.

To south-west the famous memorial to the 12 miners killed in 1839 when their rope was severed