St John the Evangelist Hailey

 

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}

 

West end 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}

 

Collage of the graveyard

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