Church of St John the Baptist

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GREAT HALE CHURCH STREET TF 1442-1542 (south side) 12/39 Church of St.John the Baptist 1/2/67 G.V. I

Parish church. Cll, C13, C14, C17, restored 1896-7 by Hodgson Fowler. Nave, north and south aisles, west tower, south porch. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar, plain tiled and copper roofs. 3 stage Cll tower of plain unbuttressed 'Lincolnshire' type, embattled C15 parapet and crocketted angle pinnacles. The belfry stage has paired round headed lights with circular midwall shafts with cushion capitals. The ground floor window on the south side has 2 orders of cable moulding to the narrow head. The north aisle is C14 with a moulded plinth, stepped buttresses and hollow chamfered eaves course. To the west is a 3 light window with C19 cusped flowing tracery. The 4 three light windows to the north also have cusped C19 tracery with pointed heads to the lights and trefoils. The north door is C14 with angle shafts to the jambs and deeply moulded pointed head. To the east is a matching 4 light window. In the blocking of the chancel arch is a C16 4 centred arched doorway with above, a 5 light C19 window with intersecting tracery. C14 window to east wall of south aisle of 4 lights with fine flowing cusped tracery to the head, trefoils and attenuated quatrefoils. C14 south aisle with stepped buttresses and 5 three light intersecting Y traceried windows with pointed heads and chamfered surrounds. To the west is a single similar window. Gabled C14 south porch with setback buttresses and statue niche to the gable now containing a C19 carving of Our Lord. Moulded and pointed outer arch with angle shafts and hood with beast head stops. Side benches. The inner door is also C14 with a continuous chamfered surround. Interior: 5 bay C13 north and south arcades, slender circular keeled responds with annular capitals supporting double chamfered arches with hollow moulded hoods and human head stops. Cll tower arch, round headed with chamfered imposts. Blocked C14 chancel arch, hollow moulded with circular shafted reveals and annular capitals. In the north aisle is a C14 piscina with cusped gabled head and 2 plain aumbries. There is an early C14 piscina in the south aisle with cusped trefoil to the pointed head, also a Caernarvon arched doorway to the rood loft. Fittings: are C19 and C20 apart from the late C17 altar rails with turned balusters and the C14 octagonal font with sunk quatrefoils to the sides and cusped headed statue niches to the sides and stem. C18 ogee shaped wooden cover with blank cusped panel decoration. Reset round the font is some late C18 softwood panelling. Above the north door is a fine carved and painted Royal Arms of George III dated 1801. Monuments: in the north aisle a wall monument to Robert Cawdron, d.l665, showing deceased and 3 wives all kneeling and in 2 tiers of free standing figures. Above a scrolled broken pediment with shield of arms and beneath a scrolled rectangular inscription panel. Also a brass plaque to Frances Cawdron, d.1650. An ashlar wall plaque to Robert Cawdron, d.1714, Doric columns support a broken segmental pediment with paterae and flaming urn. Also a further alabaster wall plaque to Sir Robert Cawdron, d.1652, in the form of an aedicule with broken pediment with escutcheon and line carvings of weepers beneath. On the south wall is a wall plaque with scrolls and acanthus leaves to the wife of Robert Cawdron, d.1733. In the south aisle (vestry) are 2 early C19 white marble plaques to members of the Dawson family.

Listing NGR: TF1484442923

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