St. John the Baptist, Holywell, Huntingdonshire

Description

The church of St. John the Baptist, standing on an eminence which overlooks the meadows bordering on the Ouse, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells, 4 of which are inscribed: there are 220 sittings.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1667: Walter Huke was rector here 1512-17 and Master of Trinity Hall; some entries being in the autograph of Thomas Tenison, Bishop of Lincoln (1691-4), Archbishop of Canterbury (1695-1716), and sometime rector of this parish.