Church Of St John The Baptist

YEDINGHAM B 1258 SE 87 NE (east side, off) 4/97 Church of St John the Baptist 10.10 66 GV II Church. 1862-63. By William Butterfield and Tuke of Bradford. Dressed sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings and stone slate roof. West bellcote; 3-bay nave; chancel. Gabled bellcote on wide, west-end pilaster buttress, with round-arched openings. Nave south side has pilaster angle buttresses and round-arched doorway of 2 orders on paired columns with leaf capitals. The outer arch is chamfered, the inner one of reused C12 blank lobed moulding. Windows are round-arched on side shafts with leaf capitals, the easternmost of paired recessed lights with voluted centre shaft. Moulded impost band forms sill band. North side windows repeat those on south side. Chancel has 2 windows of cusped lancets with dwarf offset buttress to east. Moulded sill and eaves bands. One window of paired cusped lancet on north side. Pointed east window of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil tracery, over stepped-up sill band. Coped gables, and bellcote and chancel gable crosses. Interior. Double-chamfered, stepped round chancel arch on corbels. Norman tub font on roll-moulded foot and octagonal base. Wrought-iron lamp brackets and holders in nave.

Listing NGR: SE8933979580