Church Of St John The Baptist

BROUGHTON CHURCH LANE & OLD DALBY (North side)

SK 6723 Old Dalby 22/168 Church of St John the Baptist. 1.1.68 II*

Church. 1835 by Thomas Winter, restored and altered 1894. Red sandstone ashlar, C20 plain-tile roof. Chancel, organ chamber/vestry, nave, S aisle, N porch and W tower. 3-bay chancel has 3-light E window with Perpendicular- style tracery, 4-centred head and hood moulds, similar 2-light window to NW and priest's door to SE with 4-centred head and chamfered stone surround. Vestry/organ chamber to S has similar E door, 2-light window to S with chamfered, stone mullion, arched lights, cut spandrels and double-chamfered stone surround; battlemented parapet. 3-bay S aisle has similar windows. Nave has 2-light windows to N and SW with Perpendicular-style tracery and 4- centred heads. S door has double-chamfered stone surround and 4-centred head. Porch has similar doorway, double-leaf doors, hood moulds and 1-light windows E and W with arched lights, cut spandrels and chamfered stone surround; battlemented parapet. 3-stage tower has 2-light window to bottom stage W with Perpendicular tracery and 4-centred head, 2-light window above with Y tracery and hood moulds, 2-light bell-chamber openings with similar tracery; diagonal offset buttresses and battlemented parapet. Nave has two small lancet windows one above the other to W end, either side of tower. Diagonal offset buttresses to nave, aisles, chancel, vestry and porch and offset buttresses between bays. Hollow-chamfered stone eaves to nave, chancel and aisles. Perpendicular tracery is all of 1894 and replaces Y and intersecting tracery. Interior: Nave and chancel have massive tie-beam roof on curved feet with timber corbels, and 4-centred arch between queen struts to collar. Nave has 3-bay N arcade with octagonal piers, stylized leaf capitals and double-chamfered arches. Monuments: Inportant series of monuments to Noel family removed from medieval, predecessor church and installed behind altar. Chest tomb, alabaster, with recumbent effigies of Sir Andrew Noel d.1562 flanked by his two wives. A long row of mourners to chest tomb, inscription to top of chest and shields to E end. Small alabaster chest tomb of lady and her two husbands of c.1580. Kneeling children at W end. Alabaster wall monument with recumbent effigies of Andrew Noel d.1603 and his wife on half-rolled-up mattress and chest tomb with coats of arm, separated by small shell-headed niche. Effigies are flanked by Ionic pillars on bulgy bases, round-headed arch behind effigies. Pillars support frieze. Cartouche of arm above flanked by obelisk finials. Slate wall monument to Rev. Stephen Greenaway d.1795 with Latin inscription. Buildings of England, Leics 1984, p.341-2.

Listing NGR: SK6739723540