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Church of St John the Baptist, Bere Regis
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Church of St John the Baptist, Bere Regis
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Bere Regis Church
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Bere Regis Church
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St John the Baptist: Saxon origins but externally mostly mid c15 Perpendicular with c14 Decorated window east of porch; alternating bands of flintwork & ashlar or brick
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St John the Baptist: chancel rebuilt c15; window with reticulated tracery at east end of south aisle is Victorian
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St John the Baptist: c.1500 west tower funded by Archbishop Morton; three-light bell openings; battlements, corner turrets & crocketed pinnacles; south porch largely rebuilt c19
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St John the Baptist: nave with Norman piers; late c12 plain north arcade, more decorative south arcade with scalloped capitals; squint to right of chancel arch
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St John the Baptist: late c15 oak roof funded by cardinal Morton; tie beams, arched braces with trefoil decoration linked by carved bosses
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St John the Baptist: Morton’s roof looking west; bosses are Tudor rose, shield & bearded head; roof repaired 1875
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St John the Baptist: Tudor Rose boss in Morton's roof
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St John the Baptist: shield in Morton's roof; arms of Morton (quarterly 1 & 4 gules a goat's head erased argent armed or, 2 & 3 ermine)
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St John the Baptist: boss probably depicting Cardinal Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, d.1500
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St John the Baptist: one of the apostles at end of hammerbeam; probably Judas with bag of money
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St John the Baptist: one of the apostles from Morton's roof
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St John the Baptist: angel figure in chancel roof of 1875
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St John the Baptist: Turberville window with 20 heraldic shields; five light Perpendicular of 1535 though glass is modern based on that recorded in 1600
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St John the Baptist: early c16 tomb chest, probably for a Turberville; cusped quatrefoil frieze & top cresting
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St John the Baptist: early c16 tomb chest with brass indents; probably for a Turberville
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St John the Baptist: brass inscription to Robert Turberville, d.1559
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St John the Baptist: freestone altar tomb of 1596 to John Skerne, d.1593, & wife Margaret (Thornhull)
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St John the Baptist: mural figures & achievement from the monument to John Skerne, d.1593
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St John the Baptist: John Skerne, d.1593; Elizabethan civilian dress of high ruff, doublet & loose gown
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St John the Baptist: Margaret (Thornhull), wife of John Skerne, d.1593; Paris cap, stiff ruff, pleated bodice & stomacher
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St John the Baptist: achievement of arms & inscription from the monument to John Skerne, d.1593
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St John the Baptist: memorial to Robert Williams of Herringstone, d.1631; Tuscan columns support pediment
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St John the Baptist: brass plate to Andrew Loup of Dorchester, d.1637
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Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Bere Regis, Dorset