Church of Saint John the Baptist

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SE 9984 8/17

EAST AYTON MAIN STREET (north side) Church of Saint John the Baptist

18.1.67

GV II* Church. Early C12 nave and chancel arch; C12 tower with rebuilt upper stages; C13 chancel altered in C15 and partly rebuilt C18; C15 windows and buttresses to nave; south porch of 1634 (on datestone); C19 vestry.

Sandstone rubble, with rebuilding in sandstone ashlar; pantile roof, with slate roofs to porch and vestry. West tower, partly built in nave; south porch; chancel and north vestry. Three-stage embattled tower has a single lancet to lowest stage to west, and four lancet bell openings to upper stage. Gabled porch with flat-headed opening contains a C12 round-arched doorway of a single order with beakhead moulding. Two C15 two-light flat-arched windows to right and one to left. Two similar windows, rebuilt, to chancel, flank a blocked priest's door. C13 lancet to right. C18 Venetian window in heavy plain surround to east end. No openings to north side but there is a blocked door to the right of the vestry. Coped gables and plain kneelers.

Interior: early C12 semicircular chamfered chancel arch with plain imposts. Tower arch has stepped imposts but was probably altered to the present crude ogee in C15. C12 tub font has moulded arcade in shallow relief of semicircular arches on columns with capitals and bases.

Listing NGR: SE9913284952