Building record 0116900000 - RADCLIVE PARISH CHURCH

Dimensions - Length 22m, Width 9m.
Plan Form - Subrectangular.
Grade I. Parish church. Nave and chancel originally transitional, restored 1903. Rubblestone, copper roof to nave, old tiles to chancel. W. tower C14 and C15 with battlemented parapet and corner buttresses. Nave has 2 decorated 2-light windows to north, 3-light perpendicular window to south. S. doorway has zig-zag and dogtooth ornament and carved foliage capitals, later porch. Chancel has paired lancets in N. and S. walls, decorated 2-light window in E. wall. Interior: nave has blocked staircase to road, moulded lintel over niche to right of chancel arch; chancel arch on columns with triangular ornament, arch rebuilt, fragments of original arch with beakhead ornament incorporated in wall above. Fittings: altar has early C17 carved panelling; early C17 altar rails with pierced balusters; C17 hat pegs along S. wall of nave; Norman font (B7).
Parish Church of St John the Evangelist. The walls of the chancel and the South wall of the nave are of regular squared and coursed stone. The walls of the tower and the North wall of the nave are of coursed limestone rubble. The porch, originally of wood, is cased in stone and plaster. The roofs are covered in tile and lead. The nave is possibly of late C12th date, and the chancel was rebuilt ca.1240. In the first half of the C14th, the West tower was added, and the nave was much altered and partly rebuilt. In the C15th or C16th a South porch was added. The whole church was restored in 1903 (B4 and B10).
List of rectors 1220-1824 (B2).
NGR to St John's church (B5).

St John the Evangelist. The South doorway and chancel arch are ca.1200, the former with late Norman motifs although mainly Early English, the latter with Norman motifs on the jambs, the rest of the arch being C13th (B6).