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St. John the Evangelist's Church Photos by
John Wilkes of Cam near Dursley, Gloucestershire
The Gloucestershire Photo Library

The church is of the Perpendicular style with a noble West tower, nave, South porch, and chancel, restored in 1866 by Pope & Bindon.
The tower has diagonal buttresses, an embattled parapet which is probably Tudor or later with ball-finials, and a stair-turret crowned with a dome. All the windows have Perpendicular style tracery, often inserted into older openings. The timber roofs of both nave and chancel are in the main 15th Century and have carved stone corbels. The chancel arch is segmental, springing from Late Perpendicular piers with crude carving on the imposts. The font is a 15th Century octagonal bowl with two small quatrefoils on each face supported on a circular shaft with a square buttress at each corner of the octagon. There are classical marble wall tablets in the church.
Page composition by Allan Taylor of Vancouver, Canada
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