Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist

Heritage listing

Details TQ 95 NW, 4/14 DODDINGTON, CHURCH LANE (east side), Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist 24.01.67 G.V. I Parish church. C12, extended south c.1200 and C15, restored 1873 to 1874 and 1907 to 1908. Flint with timber-framed and weatherboarded tower and plain tiled roofs. Nave and south aisle, chancel and south chapel, west tower and south porch. West tower on flint base, with 2 early C20 weatherboarded upper stages, battlemented, with gothick traceried lights. Buttressed south porch with plain chamfered doorway. C15 Perpendicular and C14 'Y' tracery windows in nave and aisle, with 3 lancets in south chapel south wall and 2 large eastern lancets. Chancel east wall with 3 small lancets with one over. Nave North wall with blocked north door repaired brick buttressing. Exposed tufa quoins and blocked arches in chancel north wall possibly to a lost chapel and tower. INTERIOR: at the west end of the nave, blocked chamfered west doorway, west window and part blocked rere-arch of C12 window. Three bay arcade on chamfered arches on square piers. Crown-post roofs in nave and aisle. Chancel arch with drip mould arch over on moulded square imposts with attached clustered shafts, with rings and acanthus crockets, the right hand pier with squints to chancel and south chapel. Arch from south aisle to south chapel simple chamfered arch on square imposts. Chancel with 2 bay arcade to chapel, slightly chamfered on round piers with square, moulded abaci. Round headed rere-arches to chancel east windows. C15 rere-arch to north-west window of chancel taken to floor level, blocking earlier lancet, to enclose stone reading desk and aumbry, perhaps a confessional. South chapel, the lancet reveals with drips and double moulded surrounds with attached shafts, carried on string cou

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.