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St. John's contains much original Norman work. There was once a central tower but this was demolished or collapsed in the 13th C. Later the 15th C west tower was built. This great Perp west tower has three stages separated by deeply moulded stringcourse. There are diagonal buttresses, set back to the middle of the bell-stage, after which they become quoin strips. There are gargoyles on the embattled parapet and some sculpture on the buttresses, especially two figures playing musical instruments, cirole and shawm. The south porch doorway has a projecting tympanum and beak-head ornamentation on the surrounding arch. The tympanum, which is basically a lintel with a canted top, shows a seated Christ in Majesty, and Evangelists' emblems. The tympanum rests on a shouldered arch, supported by shafts with grotesque-head capitals. There is an arch inside the church with chevron work enclosed by a pelleted hoodmould with dragon's-head stops, and responds with scalloped capitals and toungued bases. The font is 15th C - an octagonal bowl with a quatrefoil on each face. There is stained glass in the church by Henry Payne, 1929; W.T. Carter Shapland 1959; and Heaton, Butler & Bayne, 1895. Outside the south porch there are two notable lyre-ended chest tombs to the Poole family.
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