Interior view of St John the Baptist's Church, showing the pier in the north arcade of the nave
- Date:
- 1900 - 1949
- Location:
- St John the Baptist's Church, Church Lane, Burford, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire
- Reference:
- OP28778
- Type:
- Photograph (Print)
This print is on the same card as OP28779, OP28780, OP28781 and OP28782. An Anglican parish church dating to at least the 12th century and developed to its present complex plan by the late 15th century. It was heavily restored in the 1870s by GE Street, one of the cases which led to William Morris's founding of the SPAB. Coursed rubble and ashlar too (especially tower and Gild Chapel), lead and copper roofs concealed by parapets large Cotswold wool church; roughly cruciform in plan with central tower and spire. 5 bay aisled and clerestoried nave, North and South chapels, 3 storey South porch and the Gild chapel to the South-West.
This photograph was withdrawn from the open Red Box Collection for conservation reasons during the 2011-2012 Red Box Project.
This is part of the Series: RBO01/34 Early Photographic Print Collection: Oxfordshire; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection
© Courtauld Institute of Art
Photographer: Crossley, Frederick Herbert
Arcade, Pier, Stone Carving, Medieval Parish Church, Post Medieval Parish Church