St John the Evangelist Hailey was one church I was unsure if I could fit in during the timescale I had as it was I did have time and got a phone call to say my wife's car was ready as I was finishing my photos. I was pleased I did get the time to visit as it turned out to be a nice church with some nice people there I talked to. The photos as usual are a mixture of camera and phone
" A Church of England parish church was built in 1761 and extended in 1830. It was demolished and replaced by the present Gothic Revival parish church of St John the Evangelist in 1866–69. It was designed by the young Gothic Revival architect Clapton Crabb Rolfe, whose father Rev. George Crabb Rolfe was the perpetual curate. C.C. Rolfe applied his own interpretation of French Gothic architecture. The Oxford Diocesan Architect G.E. Street condemned his initial designs as "needlessly eccentric", so Rolfe modified them. But Sherwood and Pevsner describe the result as "still odd... a fantastic Gothic in colourful materials with bulbous forms and freakish detail". They single out the bell-turret as "particularly bizarre". The font, sited in the north aisle, is from the preceding Georgian parish church. St John's is a Grade II* listed building. Its parish is part of the Benefice of Witney, which also includes Curbridge."
The north side from the east end
North east end view
The east end with a few graves in the foreground
South east view
The bell turret is the more unusual item you will see
From the north side
Before I go around the churchyard I spotted this graveyard beside the road
The headstones look to date to the 1700s when the original church was built, from what I could see it is not used any more
Now we are in the churchyard beside the church
Graves on the north side beside the church
Out the east end near the main entrance there are a few headstones
The Commonwealth War Grave of C.L.Harris who was a shoeing Smith so Blacksmith, he looks to have survived the war only to die in the epidemic after
Graves near the east end of the church
This looks out towards the new cemtery
Which is quite large
Looking along the north side churchyard
Longer view along the path
Back around the south side
On to the porch
Inside was quite something
Wide view from the back
Towards the chancel arch
Wide view of the chancel arch with pulpit and organ
The chancel from the arch
The altar
Wide view of the chancel
Going down to the altar
The altar with reredos
Altar with east window
The reredos
The triple east window
Anther view of the reredos
The nave from the chancel arch
Pulpit
Painted organ pipes
Looking down at the nave from the pulpit
There are some very nice rose windows in the church
West central window
The stained glass windows in the church are quite beautiful
This bier has been restored by a local craftsman
Victorian gothic revival
The only memorial I saw in the church
The font
Meeting area beside the font
North aisle
The altar behind are Victorian enameled tablets with lords prayer and ten commandments
I will leave you with this photo of a cross I came across on a windowsill.
Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful week
