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The Church of St. John the Baptist : Page 5

The Sanctuary and Vestry

The parclose screen (on either side of the sanctuary) is another part of the Sedding restoration. It shows some remarkable lettering (look for the word "Acknowledge" on the North side just inside the altar rail) and many small animals. The altar rail itself repeats the names recorded on the War Memorial outside.

Just by the blue curtain into the nave is a fine monumental brass to Roger and Joanna Harper. The inscription describes Roger as a "merchant of this town", so he may well have lived in a house similar to King John's Hunting Lodge, which is a merchant's house of just that time.

In the North-East chapel, now the vestry, are several more monuments to the Prowse family, and a more humble one to a servant of theirs. The long epitaph to Thomas Prowse claims, perhaps a little too late, that "no flattery shall stain his monument".

Choir stalls

 

East Window

The big East window was dedicated at the time of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887, and also celebrated the completion of the restoration.

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