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Saint John The Baptist

Calverhall

Shropshire

Late C15, restored and chancel and east wall of nave rebuilt in 1865.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roofs.

Moulded plinth, chamfered string courses, diagonal buttresses with chamfered offsets, parapet string with carved square Tudor-flower ornament, carved gargoyles at corners (that at the north-east corner squared to the east) and carved quatrefoil frieze below, and battlemented parapet with moulded coping and crocketed corner pinnacles with trefoil-panelled dies.

Projecting half-octagonal stair turret to north-east with chamfered-arched boarded door to west at base, small rectangular windows, first string course with carved head, and pyramidal stone cap with finial.

Belfry openings of three trefoil-headed lights with panelled tracery, chamfered reveals, and hoodmoulds (except to south and east) with carved stops (north belfry opening offset to west).

West doorway with moulded arch, hoodmould with carved stops and C19 boarded door with strap hinges.

Central south window of three cinquefoil-headed lights with panelled tracery, double hollow-chamfered reveals and hoodmould with carved stops

right-hand window of three cinque- foil-headed lights, unusual panelled tracery including three octafoils, the centre elongated, moulded reveals, and hoodmould with carved stops, that to left depicting a lion and that to right probably a boar.

South doorway to left with deeply-moulded four-centred arch, carved spandrels, returned square hoodmould and C19 boarded door with decorative strap hinges.

C15 porch with moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses with chamfered offsets, moulded parapet string, and battlemented parapet with panelled crocketed finials.

Deeply-moulded entrance arch has hoodmould with carved stops, trefoil-panelled spandrels and quatrefoil frieze above under a square hoodmould.

North windows of three cinquefoil-headed lights with panelled tracery, moulded reveals and hoodmoulds with carved heads as stops.

East window of three cinquefoil-headed lights with panelled tracery, moulded reveals and hoodmould with carved heads as stops (straight joint to left).

C19 west window of two cinquefoil-headed lights with cusped Y-tracery, moulded reveals and hoodmoulds with carved heads as stops.

East window of three cinquefoil-headed lights with panelled tracery, chamfered reveals and hoodmould with carved heads as stops.

Tall C15 double chamfered tower arch, the inner chamfer with moulded imposts and bases and continuous outer chamfer with broach stops.

C19 four-bay nave roof with chamfered stone wall plate, moulded ogee- arched braces springing from carved stone corbels, low brattished collar, arched braces above with pierced spandrels, and pairs of purlins with cusped wind braces C19 three-bay chancel roof with chamfered stone wall plate and brattished wooden plate, trusses with cusped arched braces springing from moulded stone corbels, ridge piece with longitudinal cusped braces, and purlins with cusped wind braces.

Carved wooden altar table.

Polygonal stone pulpit with stem, moulded base, traceried panels, and brattished and moulded top

Octagonal stone font with chamfered step, stem with moulded base, bowl with alternating carved grid and quatrefoil panels, and wooden cover.

Oak parish chest of c.1500.

C19 encaustic tiles to chancel.

Some C19 stained glass.

MONUMENTS: brass (late C15) to Dame Margery Calverley, widow of Philip Egerton, depicting a figure and a triple canopy with a figure of St. John the Baptist above

brass to William Maynwaryng Drawing dated 1961 of former C14 north aisle roof with moulded ribs and carved bosses,now replaced.