Church of St John, Fernham, Oxfordshire

Image: © Oswald Bertram Taken: 11 Jun 2015

1861 by J H Hugall as recorded by Goodhart-Rendel. Squared and coursed rubble stone, dressed stone quoins and copings with gabled stone tiled roofs. 3 bay nave, 2 bay chancel, single w bellcote, S porch and N vestry. Early English details of 2 light cusped windows with roundels above under pointed arches to the nave and plain cusped lancets to the chancel. E window of 3 cusped lancets with quatrefoil and trefoils above under pointed arch enclosed by a dripstone with uncut capitals. W front has 2 cusped lancets with quatrefoils above either side of a stepped buttress. S porch with outer arch moulded and ending in tightly foliated capitals and inner of a single moulded arch with uncut capitals. Aisleless interior with open rafter roofs and a plainly moulded chancel arch on half shafts with tightly foliated capitals. 1867 stained glass E window by Wailes and further stained glass in chancel S window and nave S windows. Stone pulpit with coloured marble insets and octagonal font on oloured marble piers both contemporary with the church. St John's stands on an elevated site overlooking the village centre. (Source:Historic England)

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