Church of St John the Baptist, Tisbury

Heritage listing

Details TISBURY CHURCH STREET ST 92 NW (south side) 4/205 Church of St. John the Baptist 6.1.66 GV I Anglican parish church. Late C12, C13, C14, C15, C16, tower rebuilt 1762, mid C19 restoration. Dressed limestone, tiled roofs. Cruciform plan with aisles, south vestry, north and west porches. Two-storey C13 north porch with double chamfered archway on pair of attached shafts, one with multi-scalloped capitals, C19 wrought- iron double gates, first floor has single lancet, quatrefoil to west, leaded light to east and blocking course to gabled roof, brick stack. North aisle has two late C14 two-light square-headed windows to right of porch and one to left. North transept with reticulated tracery 3-light north window, to east 3-light geometric traceried window, corbel table to eaves on east side. Chancel has three large 4-light windows with geometric tracery and buttresses between to north, small roll-moulded pointed doorway to centre, blocking course with pitched coping to roof, east end has angle buttresses and large 5-light geometric window with cusped lancet over, south side has two 4-light windows as north. C19 vestry to left has C14-style window and blocking course, extended to left with C14-style windows and pointed doorway, flat roof. South transept with 3-light geometric traceried window, square stone sundial over. South aisle has three 2-light square-headed C14 windows and one small above double-chamfered pointed door, buttresses and C19 stack to right for vestry, octagonal stair turret to left. North and south clerestories have four 2-light C15 square-headed windows. West end has lancet to south aisle. Late Medieval porch with stone slate roof and stone benches within, scissor-rafter roof, 5-light geometric window over, buttress with offsets to right. C13 lower

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.