Church Of St John The Baptist

MOULSFORD THE STREET SU58SE (East side) 5/123 Church of St. John the Baptist 20/06/72 (Formerly listed as St. John the Baptist's Church) - II Church. c.1846 on old foundations. By Sir George Gilbert Scott. Flint and stone base with stone dressings; flint and stone with stone dressings; old plain-tile roof; wood bell tower with splay-footed shingled roof to left. Early English style. 3-bay nave, north aisle, and chancel ,with west tower. Central open timber framed porch to 2-centred arched doorway with hood mould. Plank door with wrought iron hinges. Paired lancet to left. Paired trefoil-tapped lancet to right of centre. Trefoil-topped lancet to right. 3-light east window with Reticulated tracery. Single lancet to centre of north aisle. Paired lancet to left and right. Paired lancet to right return of aisle. Paired trefoil-topped lancet to right of nave. Single lancet to east end. Interior: arch-braced roof to nave; barrel-vault roof to chancel. C19 stained glass to chancel. Piscina to right of chancel. Richly carved pulpit, lecturn and choir stalls. Wooden arcaded communion rail. 3 segmental pointed arches to north aisle, corbelled to aisle side. Octagonal C19 font with carved quatrefoil to each side. Good series of wall monuuments of c.1694 to east end. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.III, 1923, p.507; Buildings Buildings of England: Berkshire, p. 179; David Cole, The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott, 1980, p.39).

Listing NGR: SU5915884138