Description

ST 3400 HAWKCHURCH HAWKCHURCH
20/299
8.5.67 Church of St John the
Baptist

GV I

Parish church. C12 and circa 1200 with C15 west tower. Heavily restored in 1862
when chancel was rebuilt. Stone rubble with freestone dressings and tiled roofs.
C12 nave with 1862 cherestory with alternating round and pointed arch windows and
reset C12 corbel table of carved heads. South doorway has depressed two centred
arch and early C13 shafts with leaf capitals.
North and south aisles, chancel and south porch of 1862 in Early English style with
geometric traceried two light windows and similar three light east window.
Tall C15 west tower of Somerset type, in four stages with set back buttresses with
set offs and moulded and embattled parapet. Polygonal stair turret on north side.
Perpendicular bell openings, four light perpendicular west windows and moulded four
centred arch west doorway with frieze of quatrefoils above.
Interior: Three bay north and south arcades. The north arcade of C12 with wide
double chamfered round arches, short round piers and square scalloped capitals. The
south arcade circa 1200 with moulded round arches and fine leaf capitals with small
figures. Moulded two centred chancel arch on C12 responds, one with scalloped
cushion capital, the other capital with interlacing and fighting dragons at the
base. Tall moulded C15 tower arch. 1862 hammerbeam roofs to nave and chancel.
Victorian furnishings including carved stone pulpit, reredos and benches.
Wall monuments: Sir William Donnett 1828 by Chislett in south aisle. Thomas Moore
C17, Amos Barns 1781 and Thomas Barns 1844.

Listing NGR: ST3432300417

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17525892

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)