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~ St.John the Baptist,
Hannington ~ |
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Now dedicated to
St. John the Baptist, early records of 1317 suggest a previously
dedication to St. David. The south doorway and the porch doorway are
of an earlier building of about 1160 and the porch probably 14th
century, there is a niche in the east wall. |
| The nave dates from 1230 and the north and south walls,
buttresses at the eastern end and windows and the staircase to the
rood-loft from the 15th century. Of interest is the 13th century
coffin slab on a south buttress. |
| The perpendicular style chancel dates from the 1450s.
The tower is buttressed and dates from 1430, built in three stages
with battlemented parapet and carved gargoyles at the corners.
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| A monument of 1290 is the recumbent figure of an
anchoress or female recluse, who may have lived in a stone cell
nearby, there is a record of her being granted a supply of wheat by
King Edward I in 1286. |
| The vestry dates from 1871, in the nave their are
memorials to William Freke. The tower has a peal of six bells. It is
thought that the remote church was once at the centre of a village,
burnt in an attempt to stop the Black Death. |
| Photograph courtesy
of Patsy McMillan |
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