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Saint John the Baptist

Saint John The Baptist

Greater London

Greater London

Late C15, incorporating some earlier stonework

Architectural Features

the windows all C15 and mostly of two cinquefoil lights under straight heads

Interior. arch to chapel C14, chancel arch and arcades may also predate the recorded C15 rebuilding

Chancel with medieval tiles, reset

Fine fittings by Sedding include the organ case (organ 1860s), pulpit, linenfold panelling, chancel pews with poppyheads and rood screen (this last said to be C15 in origins and resited as parclose screen in 1991). Reredos 1930s

Chapel with resited brasses, and three windows filled with early C16 stained glass figures reset in modern quarries after 1945

North-west window of chapel with glass perhaps by Willement

Late C15 font

West window with figures by Herbert Bryans in mid-C20 quarries

Nine late C18 and early C19 hatchments in chancel and nave

Many memorials, including that of Samuel Lennard, d.1618, tomb chest, and Margaret Hobbes, d.1608, wall monument of small figure with stillborn child.