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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Somersham

Cambridgeshire

Parish Church, C13 chancel, nave

Architectural Features

aisles, C14 tower, clerestory

north porch, C15 south porch.

C14 belfry window of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in two-centred head with moulded label.

South aisle with three C15 windows of three cinquefoil lights in four-centred heads with moulded labels, has mid C13 doorway with richly moulded two-centred arch and detached shafts to each jamb with stiff-leaf carving to capital and moulded base.

Similar decoration to C13 priest's door in chancel with three lancet windows.

Very fine C14 king post roof of four bays with moulded tie beams cutting across curved principals.

Carved pendants at apex of intermediate principles, and carved bosses at purlin intersections.

Carved stone corbels support wallposts.

C13 piscinae in chancel and north and south aisles.

Sedilia, C13 of three bays in chancel.

Brass in chancel early C16 of priest

monument to Anthony Hammond, 1680, Deputy Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire.

Chair with carved and inlaid back C17.

Medieval chest, dug-out with iron bound lid. (RCHM Huntingdonshire p 236).