Church Of St John The Baptist

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SK 49 NE HOOTON ROBERTS DONCASTER ROAD (North-West Side)

6/11 Church of 29.3.68 St. John the Baptist

GV

SK49NE HOOTON ROBERTS DONCASTER ROAD (north-west side)

6/11 Church of 29.3.68 St. John the Baptist

GV II

Church. C12 core, rebuilt C15, extensive C19 restoration. Sandstone: early work irregular rubble, C15 work ashlar. Slate roofs. West tower, small nave with partial aisle to south and lean-to porch in angle with nave, chancel with south chapel. Tower: Perpendicular. Chamfered plinth and moulded band to tall lower stage. 3-light west window beneath depressed, 4-centred arch. Pointed arch to door of south-east vice. Iron-faced clock. 2-light belfry openings. Renewed embattled parapet with crocketted pinnacles. Weathervane. Nave: irregular rubble heightened in ashlar. Diagonal offset buttresses to west end. Square-headed windows with hoodmoulds to aisle and north side. Aisle: chamfered plinth; 3-light window; chamfered eaves band; kneelers and gable coping. Deeply-coursed stonework to porch, round- arched south doorway. North wall: two 3-light windows with blocked doorway to west; lancet and large offset buttress to east. Rebuilt gable with kneelers, copings and cross. Chancel: lower, embattled with limestone merlons. East window: restored, 3-lights beneath round arch. Lancet to north wall. South chapel: restored, pointed 2-light window. Embattled.

Interior: pointed south doorway with old oak door. Double-chamfered, pointed-arch to aisle. Chancel arch: restored round arch on semicircular responds with crocketted capitals. Arch to south chapel similar with quarter-mould and chamfer, unrestored. Good 1701 wall monument on north wall beneath tower. Stained glass: figure of an Archbishop in lancet at east end of nave north wall, C13 or early C14, restored. The First Earl of Strafford (executed 1641), his widow and daughter thought to have been buried beneath the chancel.

Listing NGR: SK4840397066