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St John the Baptist

St John The Baptist

Elmore

Gloucestershire

C13 with late C14 nave

Architectural Features

C15 timber-framed porch with cusped arched bracing'and splat balustrading to open sides

Pointed arch to south doorway with large medieval plank and batten door

right early C16 5-light with low intersecting tracery head in square opening

Ogee-headed priest's doorway with medieval door in south chancel wall

tower is rendered except for top stage which is C14 addition with 2-light belfry openings and slate louvres

C13 pointed tower arch

Chancel contains monuments to Guise family of Elmore Court q.v.: on north side chest tomb, to Johannes Gyse died 1472, has incised line portrait of knight in armour with canopy over head and hound at feet on plain chamfered top, and Gothic script in incised border.

On south chancel wall memorial to Sir William Guise, died 1642, by Joseph Reeve of Gloucester: Jacobean Baroque flanked by twisted Composite columns supporting scrolled pediment, surmounted by putti holding wreath over Guise arms.

panel flanked by putti, death's head and hour-glass

to left memorial to Richard Leighton, died 1683, surmounted by broken pediment with central flaming funereal urn.

C17 box pews throughout nave and aisle have linenfold panelling and are attached to matching wainscot.

Plain C18 panelled octagonal timber pulpit

in north aisle High Victorian Gothic font by Waller with large architectural lid

C18 tall stone vase-font.

3 Cl9 Guise hatchments on west nave wall.

Stained glass is mainly C19