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St John

St John

Duxford

Cambridgeshire

Late C12 tower, nave and chancel.

Architectural Features

C13 tower heightened and chancel lengthened.

Chapel of two bays added to north side of chancel c.1330, late C14 window added to ground stage of tower and west end of nave.

Late C15 north aisle, and arcade, arches to tower and north chapel and C15 window to nave, and chancel

C15 porch, C16 east window.

Restoration of tower and wall paintings 1985.

North elevation: Nave with lower pitch of original C12 roof and original truss embedded in west gable wall.

Chapel with diagonal buttress to east, grotesque gargoyles and cornice with vine and ball flower ornament

Tower of three stages with loop window at second stage and early C14 two-light window with quatrefoil in two-centred arch

C15 embattled parapet and small leaded spirelet.

timber-framed and plastered with carved spandrels and kingpost roof.

South doorway, clunch with round arch enriched by chevron ornament, tympanum relief carving of cross with stepped arms.

Interior: C12 round headed tower arches, to west with three attached columns, lobed cushion capitals and plain bases on chamfered plinth, to east with single shafted jambs cushion capitals and a pair of carved dogs to left hand base on chamfered plinth.

Above the arches on walls facing east and west are fragments of wall paintings.

Two bay C14 arcade from chancel to chapel with continuous moulded orders with semi octagonal shafts

C15 two bay arcade to nave, tower, and north chapel with two-centred arches and semi octagonal responds.

Font C13 octagonal bowl on clunch pedestal.

Late C14 stair to chancel screen.

C18 floor tiles and late C17 barley sugar balustered communion rail.

Late C15 benches.

Roofs: Nave roof C14 scissor braced collar rafter roof.

C15 chancel roof with moulded cambered tie beam and principal with carved bosses at insections.

The unification of St John's Parish Church with St Peter's was discussed in 1650 and completed finally in 1874, the Church became derelict and is now in the care of the Redundant Church Fund.

The north chapel was used as a school room from the mid C17 to c.1847.