Church Of St John The Baptist

SO 8206-8306 RANDWICK RANDWICK VILLAGE

14/214 Church of St John the Baptist

28.6.60

GV II

Parish church. C14 tower. Remainder extensively rebuilt in C18 and early C19. Nave restored and partly rebuilt 1865 by W.B. Baker of Stroud; large south aisle and chapel added 1894-6. Ashlar limestone; stone and artificial stone slate roof. Nave and chancel with south aisle and chapel; north vestry and west tower; west porch. Two-stage tower with Decorated tracery to west window; diagonal offset corner buttresses. Two-light belfry openings with stone louvres and crenellated parapet. Parapet gabled west porch with pointed archway, end wall of aisle having older masonry at base, one stone dated 1719; upper part of gable with cusped circular west window and remainder of aisle added 1894- 6. Three geometrical traceried windows to south wall of aisle; three Decorated style north nave windows. Parapet east gable ends to chancel and south aisle, chancel window with Decorated tracery, geometrical tracery to aisle. C20 gabled north vestry; hipped roof to organ loft alongside. Interior: C19 2-bay pointed arched arcade between a nave and aisle of similar width and height. Low-pitched ribbed nave ceiling, 5- bay arched braced collar truss roof to aisle. Cusped roof trusses in chancel supported on carved corbels with shafts to eastern bay terminated by carved angels. Shouldered arched vestry doorway with quatrefoil openwork panel above. Oddly-placed pointed arched doorway central to east end of aisle. Font, pulpit, pews and choir stalls all C19. Some good monuments: wall tablet with elaborate border containing cherubs' heads to SARAH COOKE, died 1726. Several other C18 monuments to west aisle wall. Monument with scrolled pediment to nave wall has crest and gadrooned base, inscribed to James Mitchel, Gent Lord of Randwick, died 1758. Another with 2 urns on obelisk background to ANN, Wife of Thomas White, died 1784. Some windows have later C19 stained glass. Queen Anne hatchment dated 1711 to west wall of aisle. (N.M. Herbert, 'Randwick' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 224-230; D. Verey, Cotswold Churches, 1976, and Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979) ___

Listing NGR: SO8274706702