Kirdford, Sussex, England

St John the Baptist, Kirdford, West Sussex. The The nave is C12 with a blocked doorway and the north aisle is early C13. Most windows are C14 or early C15, which is also the date of the chancel, sacristy and tower. The mediaeval parish of Kirdford was large and so is the church. The nave, built like the rest of local grey-green stone, has a blocked C12 south doorway and the herringbone masonry in the lower part of the wall suggests building began early in the century. The doorway has a head of two orders, the outer thickly roll-moulded, and nookshafts with weathered capitals - the shafts lack their bases. So far into the Weald, there was probably no earlier church.