Church Of St John The Baptist

SU 03 SE BURCOMBE WITHOUT NORTH BURCOMBE (north side)

2/111 Church of St. John the Baptist 23.3.60

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Anglican parish church. Saxon, C13, C15, tower rebuilt 1667, restored 1859 by T.H. Wyatt. Rubble stone, tiled roof with coped verges. Chancel, nave with low south tower over porch, C19 north aisle. Two-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, Tudor-arched doorway with cusped spandrels and square hoodmould, offset bellstage with 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned louvre on south and east side, 2-light Tudor-arched louvre to west, sundial below and circular gilded clock face on south side, plain parapet with saddleback coping. South side of nave has 2-light square-headed window with cusped lights to left of tower, two 2-light square- headed windows with cusped lights and hoodmoulds to right. South side of chancel has two pairs of cusped ogee lancets, east end has C19 plate tracery window, Saxon long-and-short work to corners of east end, north side has attached C19 vestry with cusped lancets and pointed doorway. North aisle of 1859 has three C16-style 2- light windows and one single-light, all with square hoodmoulds, quatrefoil to west end. West end of nave has cross window with cusped pointed lights and hoodmould with unfinished terminals, trefoil over. Interior: Porch has pointed chamfered inner doorway with C19 door, plain pointed stoup to right. Nave has C19 seven-bay boarded vaulted roof. C19 north aisle with 4-bay double-chamfered pointed arcade on cylindrical piers. C19 double chamfered chancel arch, C19 wagon roof, polychrome tiled floor. Fittings: C19 pews, late C19 C16-style panelling in chancel, chamfered pointed piscina on south wall, C19 stone pulpit with open arcading. Restored C12 cylindrical stone font in nave. Stained glass windows in chancel of1880s and 1890s. Monuments include a segmental eared tablet to Matthew Pitts died 1746 and a marble to Edmund Pitts died 1770 in nave, marble in north aisle to Ruth Moore died 1806 with fluted pilasters and frieze. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: SU0730431166