Held at: | Hereford Public Library |
Reference: | Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Herefordshire, Volume 1: H 936.244 |
Source: | Transcript of Original Publication |
Title: | Parish Church of St John the Baptist: architecture, construction and history |
Place name: | Newton |
Date: | Up to 1700 |
Description:
(1). PARISH CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST stands near the eastern boundary of the parish. It was built in 1842, but has the following fittings : Chest: In naveāof oak, with front framed in three panels enriched with lozenge-design, top-rail carved with foliage-ornament, bottom-rail moulded and styles and muntins carved with guilloche-ornament, lid panelled; early 17th-century. Font: round bowl, cut down and retooled, late I2th or early 13th-century, base with shallow moulded edge, probably 13th-century. Plate: includes secular bowl of 1682, with lower part enriched with acanthus-leaf repousse work and with two cast scroll handles at sides. Pulpit: two sides only, each having bolection-moulded panels forming a geometrical design, with a boss carved with a grotesque beast-head and foliage in the middle, frieze below enriched with reed-ornament, base with honeysuckle in relief and cornice with dentil ornament; at the angles and against the S. wall are Ionic columns on panelled bases; early to mid 17th-century, book-board and pedestal modern.
Observations:
Description documented c 1930 by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments
Ordnance Survey Map Reference and Index of Parish Properties
Ref: rs_nwt_0023