Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST JOHN (102904)

ST 72 SE BUCKHORN WESTON WESTON HILl (north side) 6/65 Church of St John (formerly listed as Church of St John GV II* Baptist) Parish Church. C14 origin with C15 porch. Tower 1861, north aisle and organ chamber 1870. 1861 work by Thomas Richards of Wincanton, 1870 work by G R Crickmay. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Gabled tiled roofs with stone copings. Nave has stone slate verges. Plan: Nave, chancel, north aisle, north organ chamber, west tower, south porch. Tower: 2-stage, embattled with crocketted finials and diagonal weathered buttresses; chamfer ed, 2-centred west doorway, trefoiled window with label over; north wall has diamond shaped window with quatrefoil; segmental-pointed belfry lights with louvres; sundial dated 1599. Nave has C19 south windows of 2 and 3- lights under 2-centred heads with flowing tracery and labels with head stops. North and south chancel walls have C14 2-light windows under 2-centred heads. East chancel window of 3-lights with Geometric tracery under a 2-centred head having a label with foliage stops. Aisle windows are square-headed, of 2 and 3-lights and 'Perpendicular' tracery. Porch with moulded 4-centred head arch above which is a canopied niche with pinnacles and crocketted finials containing worn figure said to represent St John the Baptist. 3-centred, chamfered south doorway with continuous jambs. Internal features: 2-centred, chamfered chancel arch dying into flat jambs; 2-centred tower arch of 2 chamfered orders dying into flat jambs; 3 bay aracade of 2-centred, moulded arches on piers with 4 subsidary shafts with capitals; 2-centred, roll-moulded organ chamber arches; combined arch-braced and scissor- truss nave roof; arch-braced collar-truss chancel roof on corbels; arch-braced collar-truss roof on corbels to aisle; C15 octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels each having a pair of fleurons above, the whole supported on a moulded octagonal pier on a square base; remains of rood vice; recess with 2-centred moulded cusped head containing recumbent effigy of man in C14 dress (said to be Alexander Mobray): pedimented marble wall plate to Samuel and Ann Clark, 1761;C18 floor slabs, reset C14 piscina in chancel; C19 pulpit with blind tracery, C19 benches; C19 glass. (RCHM, Dorset, vol IV pp6-8, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 121. Pitfield F P Dorset Parish Churches A-D, Dorset Publishing Company, 1981, pp 128-131.) Listing NGR: ST7569024717

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