In the chancel of St John the Baptist, Allington, the curate got a bang for his buck from the decorators. From floor to ceiling, there are vines, fleur-de-lys, roses, an orange tree, and stars – lots of stars - creating a celure, or canopy of honour, over the altar...
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The decoration is the work of Heaton, Butler & Bayne, poster boys of the Victorian restoration scene. They’re also responsible for the patterned tiles on the chancel floor and the Crucifixion in the east window.
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The chancel decoration was done in memory of Canon F. W. Fowle, who was the rector in the 1840, and employed the curate, William Grey to rebuild the Romanesque church.
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Grey created an almost exact rebuild of the earlier church, and re-used pieces of the older stonework, including this fragment of a Norman doorway on the north elevation. A floating arc of lozenges and pellets in a sea of knapped flints.
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