Church Of St John The Baptist

SO 62 NE; 5/69

UPTON BISHOP CP, Church of St John the Baptist

25.02.66

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Parish church. C12 nave and arcade of south aisle, C13 chancel, C14 south porch and rebuilding of south aisle, west tower c1400; restoration of 1862 and south vestry added in 1880. Sandstone rubble; stone slate roof. West tower, nave with south aisle and south porch, chancel and south vestry.

West tower: three stages, stepped diagonal buttressing, two string courses; plain parapet. Trefoil-headed light with square-headed surround to second stage, two trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil to belfry. South aisle: two trefoiled-ogee headed lights to square-headed window to left with similar 3-light window to right of south porch. Two cinquefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil to east window of south aisle; trefoiled-ogee-headed light to west window. South porch: gabled with raised verge. Two-centred outer doorway with two chamfered orders, inner dying into responds. Single trefoil-headed lights to returns. Chancel: two trefoiled-ogee-headed lights with quatrefoil to left partly obscured by C19 octagonal vestry; similar 2-light window to right of vestry. East window: early C13 lancets flanking later inserted C14 window of two trefoiled-ogee-headed lights and quatrefoil.

INTERIOR: tall tower arch, two moulded orders; south aisle arcade: three-bay 2-centre-headed arches with drum piers, moulded bases and capitals with trumpet and foliate-type enrichment, largely restored. Blocked C12 doorway in north wall of nave with semicircular head. Moulded reveals to lancets at east end of chancel. Fittings: C14 font, faceted stem with octagonal bowl, quatrefoil panels to each side. C17 pulpit, hexagonal with enriched arcaded panels. Monuments: south aisle recess with segmental pointed arch and chamfered jambs, male effigy in contemporary costume with square object in hands; recess flanked by trefoiled ogee-headed piscinae. Incorporated into south wall of chancel are fragments of sculptural reliefs said to be fragments of a Roman tombstone.

Listing NGR: SO6502327212