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St John The Baptist

Mildenhall

Wiltshire

South aisle has lancet with round hoodmould, other nave and aisle windows C15 square headed 3- cinquefoil lights and 1 and 2-lights to clerestory

Architectural Features

Chancel and north aisle also have C15 pointed 2-cinquefoil lights

Below on north and south, Anglo-Saxon 2-light square headed openings

High openings probably of rood screen east of eastern imposts

Pointed chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders on scalloped corbels, one with carved head

wall dado with carved leaf frieze

high reader's desk and lectern either side of chancel arch approached by steps from chancel and having tall backboards and sounders

In chancel choir pews, also highly carved but in Gothic design, the dado panelling extending to east end and returning with Paternoster boards and rising to openwork ogee baldacchino on quatrefoil riddel posts

Font

with carved oak cover and iron point for suspension from soffite of gallery

Glass: East window with fragments of C14 - C15 yellow stained glass, a bishop with crozier, and sun and crowns in foils of window

Royal Arms of George III over chancel arch

3 hatchments, and 4 painted shields on corbel posts

Monuments: Chancel: Marble wall tablets, STEPHEN HYDE, 1697, arms on broken pediment, fluted bell below inscription

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