Burford - Church of St John the Baptist

The magnificent 'wool' church of St John the Baptist, originally Norman, has mostly late medieval additions with an assortment of aisles and chapels, and is full of fine wall paintings.   The three-storeyed south porch is very rich in detail.  Many fine monuments, especially the canopied tomb of Sir Lawrence and Lady Tanfield and one to Chief Justice Tanfield dated 1625.

See also the west door and memorial to Christopher Kempster one of Christopher Wren's masons. In the churchyard are many 17th and 18th century magnificent 'wool pack' tomb chests with details.

Don't miss the memorial to Henry VIII's barber, Edmund Harman, accompanied by Brazilian Indians dated 1569.  One fine monument in the south chancel chapel is to Sarah Bartholomew, d1689, a delightful Baroque tablet, bursting with vitality, and a pre-Christian carving dated at 100AD.

Cromwell's army kept prisioners here, one of whom Anthony Sedley scratched his name on the font in 1649. 

Grade I listed building