Church of St John the Baptist

Church of St John the Baptist, Plymtree
Church of St John the Baptist, Plymtree
St John the Baptist; south aisle & rood screen
St John the Baptist: nave & south arcade with carved foliage capitals; ceiled wagon roof
St John the Baptist: view from south entrance looking north-east showing c15 woodwork & bench ends on flagstone floor
St John the Baptist: c15 rood screen; a gift from Isabel, Yorkist countess of Devon, shortly after her husband Humphrey Stafford was beheaded following the battle of Edgecote, 1469
St John the Baptist: artwork from c15 screen showing Bourchier Knot (Isabel later married Sir Thomas Bourchier)
St John the Baptist: early c16 paintings in screen dado; Virgin & Child with the Three Wise Men
St John the Baptist: early c16 paintings in screen dado; bishop with crook, cope & mitre, St Catherine of Alexandria (beheaded c4), St Roch (patron of plague-stricken, c.1350-80) & angel blessing him
St John the Baptist: early c16 paintings in screen dado; St Margaret of Antioch (swallowed by dragon), St John the Baptist, St Mary Magdalene with ointment (eyes gouged out during Reformation), St Joseph of Aramathea
St John the Baptist: Flemish alabaster relief of the Resurrection, c.1600