St John The Baptist Church, Cottered, Herts, UK - Medieval Churches on Waymarking.com

The church of St. John The Baptist consists of chancel, north vestry, north chapel, nave, south porch, and west tower. The walls are of flint rubble covered with cement and the dressings are of stone; the north wall of the vestry is of brick. The roofs are tiled and leaded. There are large blocks of flint conglomerate, or 'pudding stones', used as foundations under the western angles of the tower.

The chancel, nave, with south porch and west tower, were built about 1350; the north chapel and the roof and windows of the nave belong to the 15th and the north vestry to the 16th century.

On the north side of the chancel is an arcade of two arches of 15th-century work, opening into the north chapel. In the south wall are two early 16th-century windows with square heads, one of which is inserted in an earlier opening, partly blocked.

The vestry has one window in the east wall, of two cusped lights under a square head, of 16th-century date, with the original iron stanchions; the door is original. In the north wall of the chapel are two windows, each of three cinquefoiled lights with tracery, under a four-centred arch; the tracery is modern. The 15th-century doorway has a modern arch. There is an opening with a modern arch between the chapel and the nave; it is probably 14th-century work.

The two eastern windows in the north wall of the nave are each of three lights and are very lofty. The westernmost windows in the north and south walls are similar in detail, but are of two lights only. All the windows are of 15th-century work, a good deal repaired. Some fragments of 15th-century glass remain in the heads of the north windows.

There is an early 16th-century two-light window, under a square head, on either side of the south porch; the entrance doorway is coated with cement. There are remains of a stoup in the porch.

The west tower is of three stages, with an embattled parapet, and a slight, lofty spire covered with lead. The west doorway is modern, but the window over it is of c. 1350; it is of two lights and has been repaired with cement.

The roof over the nave is of 15th-century date, with moulded principals and purlins. Many of the corbels and carved bosses are missing. Parts of the chancel roof and the beams over the north chapel belong to the same period.

Building Materials: Stone

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