Church Of St John The Baptist

ST 65 NW FARRINGTON GURNEY CHURCH LANE (north side)

6/61 Church of St. John the Baptist 21.9.60 II

Anglican parish church. 1843-5 by John Pinch junior. Squared and coursed lias with freestone dressings, ashlar buttresses,stone tile roof to nave, C20 plain tile roofs to chancel and aisles. Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west tower. Norman Revival style replacing earlier church. 4 bay nave with embattled billet corbel table and pilaster buttresses; single light windows with recessed arched surrounds. Chancel has tall round-headed windows with blind round-headed arcading at their bases. Aisles have nook shafts and cushion capitals to windows. Tower of 4 stages with setback buttresses and plain parapet. West doorway of 2 orders with nook shafts and cushion capitals; studded plank 2-leaf door. Above doorway a reset medieval figure of God the Father holding a crucifixion in his hands. Single light window to 2nd stage, nebule frieze above, further traceried roundel and bell stage with 2-light openings. Bracketted cornice below parapet. Interior. 4 bay nave arcades with circular piers and scalloped capitals. Hammerbeam roof to nave, plank roofs to aisles, open rafter roof to chancel. West gallery. Fittings. Neo-Norman font and pulpit. Reset eroded stone coat of arms above west gallery. Late C19 stained glass throughout. Mogg family monuments in chancel: earliest, 1641 to Richard Mogg. (Pevsner, Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST6351155716