Church Of St John The Baptist And St Felix

FELIXSTOWE ORWELL ROAD TM 23 SE 3/29 Church of St John the Baptist and St Felix II*

Parish church, 1894-99 by Sir Arthur Blomfield, completed 1914. Red brick, Bath stone dressings, tile roofs. South west tower, aisled nave, south porch, chancel, north transept, south lady chapel. Tower. 4 stages and spire. Stepped angle buttresses, faceted stone spirelets , stone parapet, octagonal stone spire. South doorway, moulded arched entrance beneath stone gable with crocketed finials. Paired lancets at 1st stage and belfry. Clock face on south, east and west faces. Stair tower on north side. Quatrefoil lucarne openings to spire. Nave of 6 bays, articulated by buttressed brick pilaster strips, alternating with clerestory windows. Aisle lancets, singly or in groups of 2 or 3. Clerestory windows: encircled cinquefoils alternate with sexfoils in spherical triangles. Gabled south porch,stone dressed brick, brick parapet, doorway of multiple mouldings. West window. Group of 4 lancets beneath encircled sexfoil. Chancel and Lady chapel in similar style. East window 3 grouped lancets below encircled cinquefoil. Interior: Nave of 4 1/2 bays, north and south aisles. Arcades of circular drum iron piers faced with brick, brick bases and capitals, pointed moulded brick arches, the mouldings running into broach stops of stone. Brick walls, punctuated by horizontal stone and roughcast bands. 6 bay scissor braced crownpost roof. Aisle roofs queen posts with lateral braces. Baptistery at west end north aisle; stone font, hexagonal stem, 12- sided bowl. Rood screen and parclose screen, set on stone base, 1910 by Gerald Cogswell. Pointed chancel arch with half arch to each sideleading to transept and lady chapel. East window flanked by blind arched openings with blank Y tracery. Piscina and 2 sedilia with cinquefoil heads. Mosaic marble reredos framed by polychromatic mural decoration. 4 cant wagon roof. 2-bay arcade to south divides off Lady Chapel. Pulpit 1903 by Whitcombe and Cogswell. Glass mainly James Powell and Sons, London.

Listing NGR: TM2996034438