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St John The Baptist

Horningsham

Wiltshire

C15 tower, remainder rebuilt 1844 by T.H. Wyatt and D. Brandon

Architectural Features

C15 north-west 3- stage tower has diagonal buttresses

moulded string course with carved grotesque animals to battlemented parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles

Interior: Entrance in tower has carved ribbed ceiling with rosette bosses, Tudor-style screen to south aisle

west bay partitioned by ashlar wall with pointed doorway and painted inscription frieze, carved stone Royal Arms

Good hammer beam nave roof with carved spandrels

- chancel same width as nave with fine 4-bay hammer beam roof with carved angels on hammer beams

Two pointed arches to south chapel and north organ chamber and vestry with traceried screens, painted biblical inscriptions on friezes, polychrome tiled floor, some Medieval tiles in presbytery

good brass candelabras

cylindrical stone pulpit with traceried panels

octagonal stone font at west end

East window has fine pictorial stained glass depicting The Crucifixion

1860s glass in south chapel and west window

Photo coming soon