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St John The Baptist

Blisworth

Northamptonshire

C14 and C15 with C13 origins, restored 1856 by E.F. Law

Architectural Features

3-bay chancel has 5-light east window with unusual Decorated tracery, 3-light Perpendicular windows to north with four-centred heads, small blocked low-side window to north-west with cusped head and cut spandrels, similar Perpendicular window to south-west and two 2-light C13 windows to south that furthest east with trefoil-in-circle to head, the other with Y tracery

Plain tub font attached to west pier of north arcade

Tall C15 rood screen with 1-light divisions

C17 communion rail

Charity board and another board formerly in tower commemorating a ring on 31st December 1790 and signed 'Rd Dunckley Clerk May 12 1791'. Royal Arms of George III, oil on board

Some medieval stain-glass to heads of lights of north chancel window, other C14 and C15 fragments to south chancel window

Stain-glass south-west chancel window dated 1851

Late C19 stain glass to and north-east chancel windows

Coloured glass to heads of clerestory windows and east window of north aisle

Old crown glass panes to other windows, one inscribed God Save the King/for Ever 1798

Monuments

Brass on chest tomb to Roger Wake, d.1504 and his wife Elizabeth

Stone wall monument to Margaret Blackey wife of Lional Blackey, d.1673 who 'lived a Maide:18/yeares:a wife 20 and a wid/ow 61'. Stone wall monument to Rebecca wife of Reverend Jonothan Yates, whose inscription records she was the 'wife of my right hand and/ioy fortie and foure yeares/ten monthes and one week'. Wall monument, oil on board, to Robert Watson, schoolmaster, d.1794 and signed Richard Dunkley. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p108)

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