St John The Baptist
Church of England
The nave, pulpit, chancel display screen and chancel.
The church dates again to C12 and was allegedly founded in reaction to Pagan worship on the close by White Horse Hill.
Unusually, its interior was left mainly untouched by the Victorians, and as a final result it features scarce C14 wall paintings depicting Peter, Paul, Herod and Salomé (with the Baptist’s head on a platter), stunning medieval stained glass, and exceptional C15 to C17 woodwork, including wonderful bench ends, panelling, pulpit and rood monitor.
Unfortunately, regardless of this treasure trove of heritage the church fell into these kinds of a inadequate condition of repair service that it was put on the English Heritage ‘At Risk’ Sign up, and even confronted imminent closure.
Fortuitously the nearby community rallied all around to help save their beautiful community landmark and a restoration task will start off in the summer time of 2015.
St John The Baptist is Grade II* Listed.
Posted by Oxfordshire Churches on 2015-04-23 06:26:34
Tagged: , Kingston Lisle , Oxfordshire , Church buildings , Anglican , Church of England , CofE , Panasonic , Lumix GH3 , MFT , Micro Four Thirds , Micro 4/3 , England , Uk , United Kingdom , © John Ward , Outlined Properties , Grade II* Listed , English Heritage , At Risk Register
#furniture #Do-it-yourself #woodwork #woodworking #freedownload#woodworkingprojects #woodsmith ,wood craft, wooden planer, fantastic woodworking, wooden chairs, wooden performing applications, popular woodworking, woodworking guides, woodworking workbench programs